Lots of Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this in the blog because it’s so that very odd doing this things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and only just took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off to along side it from the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I had an image that we planned to paint, because I was pondering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The style was of your mountain, once we are coming down from the top. I knew I want to it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. So I developed a canvas. I knew before hand how the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a couple hours into it on the first day. The second day, I took the painting beside me for the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames this also one inch particular that we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But the following is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies ah. Around the botton of the frame would be 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 Plein air painting I had created done in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in life, right onto your pathway from the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title may be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back in the painting and will also be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!