Way too many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this within a blog which is simply so very odd this way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting in support of recently removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to along side it within the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I had a photo i desired to paint, because I was thinking about life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The look was of your mountain, even as are coming down from your top. I knew I want to it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew ahead of time how the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply one or two hours in it around the first day. The next day, I took the painting with me for the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It had been a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames and also this one out of particular we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But the following is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. About the botton of the frame was a brass label. It had, until recently framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.

Sound strange!?
1. The Jessica Henry I’d done in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, off and away to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in your life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. Which was somewhat a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be concerning the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrived at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I have no idea!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back of the painting and are sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!