Lots of Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this in the blog because it’s so very odd doing this things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and just recently removed it through the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat on along side it inside the studio. A couple weeks ago, I needed a photo which i wished to paint, because I was pondering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The look was of a mountain, even as we are decreasing from your top. I knew I wanted it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew before hand how the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only one or two hours with it on the first day. The second day, I took the painting with me at night to the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

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

But here’s the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. For the botton from the frame was obviously 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 Classical impressionist artist I had created done in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, looking forward to new life, on the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in life, the journey from the shadows and mountain highs. That was somewhat element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was concerning the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken many different ways. 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 whatever reason, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I’ve no clue!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back in the painting and will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!