Way too many Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in the blog since it is so that very odd that way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and just just took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the side inside the studio. A couple weeks ago, I needed a graphic that we planned to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The look was of a mountain, once we are coming down from the top. I knew I want to it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. Therefore i designed a canvas. I knew beforehand the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a couple of hours involved with it for the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me on the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames this also one inch particular that individuals had just acquired located mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But this is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. For the botton in 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 Classical impressionist artist I’d completed in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, looking forward to new life, off and away to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in life, the journey with the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a little 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 been about the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title might be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though had not arrive at 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 uknown, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! We’ve not a clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back from the painting and will also be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!