A lot of Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this in a blog since it is so very odd that way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting in support of just lately took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the inside from the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I’d a photo which i wanted to paint, because I was pondering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The image was of the mountain, even as are decreasing in the top. I knew I needed it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. I really created a canvas. I knew ahead of time how the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a few hours with it on the first day. The second day, I took the painting when camping to the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames and this one out of particular we had just acquired found mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. For the botton from the frame would have been 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 the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, waiting for new life, off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. That was somewhat an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be regarding the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title may be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we had not come to my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I’ve no clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is coupled 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!