Too Many Coinscidences: These kind of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this inside a blog because it’s just so very odd that way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and only just lately took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat on the inside in the studio. A couple weeks ago, I’d a graphic that I wished to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The image was of a mountain, once we are decreasing through the top. I knew I wanted it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. I really made a canvas. I knew before hand the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours involved with it for the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me at night to the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames and also this one out of particular that we had just acquired found mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But this is in which the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. For the botton with 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 Jessica Henry I’d carried out in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, looking forward to new life, off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in life, the journey through the shadows and mountain highs. Which was slightly an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people happened to have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been in regards to the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title may be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we had not 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 designed for this painting. Why?! I have no clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back from the painting and you will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!