Lots of Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in a blog because it’s so very odd this way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting and only just recently removed it from the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the side from the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I needed an image which i wished to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The image was of an mountain, even as we are decreasing through the top. I knew I desired it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. I really made a canvas. I knew before hand that this painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be one or two hours involved with it around the first day. The next day, I took the painting beside me on the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames and also this one out of particular that we had just acquired located mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But this is the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. Around the botton from the frame would have been 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 Plein air painting I had created completed in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, awaiting new life, away and off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in everyday life, the journey over the shadows and mountain highs. That was slightly a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame we happened to have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title might be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t visit my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I’ve no clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back in the painting and are sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!