Lots of Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this within a blog which is simply so very odd that way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and only just lately took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side from the studio. A couple weeks ago, I needed a picture i planned to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The look was of a mountain, as we are decreasing through the top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew ahead of time that this painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple hours into it about the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me at night towards the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames and also this one in particular that people had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But this is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. On the botton of the frame was obviously 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’d completed in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, awaiting new life, on the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in everyday life, the journey over the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be in regards to the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title may be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like 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 coupled to the back from the painting and will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!