Too Many Coinscidences: These kind of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this within a blog which is so very odd this way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting in support of just lately took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the medial side from the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had created a picture i desired to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The picture was of your mountain, even as we are coming down in the top. I knew I needed it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. Therefore i designed a canvas. I knew beforehand the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours into it around the first day. The second day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It had been a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames and also this one in particular we had just acquired located mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But the following is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies ah. About 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 needed carried out the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, waiting for new life, away and off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in life, the journey through the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been somewhat included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that we 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 more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not visit 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 unknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I have no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back in the painting and will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!