Too Many Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in a blog because it is just so very odd that way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and just just recently removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the inside from the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I’d a graphic that I planned to paint, since i was thinking about life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The picture was of a mountain, as we are coming down in the top. I knew I wanted it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. So I designed a canvas. I knew before hand the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours in it on the first day. The next day, I took the painting with me to the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames and also this one inch particular that people had just acquired found mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But this is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. For the botton of the frame was 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 Jessica Henry I had carried out in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, awaiting new life, away and off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in everyday life, right onto your pathway through the shadows and mountain highs. That has been slightly included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was concerning the decent down a mountain side, where in the title may be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t visit my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I have no idea!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back from the painting and will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!