A lot of Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this in a blog because it’s so very odd that way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting simply just lately took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the side from the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I’d a photo i wanted to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The look was of a mountain, even as are decreasing from your top. I knew I needed it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. I really made a canvas. I knew ahead of time the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a few hours with it around the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me at night on the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We was discussing frames and this one inch particular that we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here’s the location where the story gets interesting, the frame came from 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 impressionism I had done in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, looking forward to new life, off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in daily life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. That was slightly included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people happened to have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been concerning the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t 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 i really enjoy seeing, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back with the painting and are sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!