Lots of Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this in the blog because it is so that very odd this way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting in support of just took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the inside within the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I needed a picture i wanted to paint, because I was considering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The look was of an mountain, once we are coming down from the top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. Therefore i made a canvas. I knew beforehand that this painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be a few hours in it on the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting when camping for the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It had been some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames which one out of particular that people had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But the following is where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies ah. Around the botton from the frame was obviously a brass label. It had, up to now 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 Classical impressionism I had created completed in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, waiting for new life, on the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. That was somewhat included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not come to my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! We’ve not a clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back from the painting and you will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!