Too Many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I wanted 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 do a painting and just just lately took it off from the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the medial side within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I’d an image i wanted to paint, because I was pondering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The style was of your mountain, as we are decreasing through the top. I knew I want to it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. So I developed a canvas. I knew in advance the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

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

We were discussing frames and also this one in particular that individuals had just acquired came to mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But this is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. For the botton of the frame would have been 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 carried out in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, waiting for new life, off to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in your life, your way with the shadows and mountain highs. Which was a little bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that individuals became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been in regards to the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though had not arrive at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We have not a clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back with the painting and you will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!