Too Many Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this inside a blog since it is so that very odd like that things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and only just took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to along side it inside the studio. A couple weeks ago, I’d a picture that I wished to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The picture was of the mountain, even as are coming down from your top. I knew I desired it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. I really developed a canvas. I knew before hand that the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

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

We happened to be discussing frames and also this one inch particular that people 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 here’s where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. Around the botton of the frame was a brass label. It had, alternatives 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 done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, waiting for new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. That has been somewhat a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame we became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was 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 had not arrive at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back from the painting and are sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!