Way too many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in the blog because it’s just so very odd like that things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting and just just removed it from the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side within the studio. A month ago, I had created a graphic that I wished to paint, because I was thinking about life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The picture was of the mountain, once we are coming down from your top. I knew I desired it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. So I developed a canvas. I knew before hand the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours involved with it about the first day. The second day, I took the painting when camping to the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out some epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames which one in particular we had just acquired came to mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here’s the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. Around the botton in the frame would have been a brass label. It had, as yet 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 Plein air painting I needed carried out the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, looking forward to new life, off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in life, your journey from the shadows and mountain highs. Which was slightly included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be in regards to the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back from the painting and you will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!