A lot of Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this in the blog which is just so very odd doing this things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and only just lately removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to along side it inside the studio. A month ago, I had a photo which i desired to paint, since i was thinking about life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The style was of your mountain, as we are coming down through the top. I knew I want to it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew ahead of time that this painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a few hours with it around the first day. The second day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

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

But here is the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. On the botton in the frame would be 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 impressionist artist I’d carried out in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, awaiting new life, off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in life, right onto your pathway with the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that individuals happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could possibly be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t come to 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 have no idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back in the painting and will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!