Too Many Coinscidences: These kind of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this inside a blog since it is simply so very odd this way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting in support of recently removed it through the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat on the medial side within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I’d a graphic i wished to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The image was of your mountain, as we are decreasing from the top. I knew I desired it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. So I developed a canvas. I knew in advance how the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple of hours into it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me for the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

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

But the following is where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. About the botton of the frame was a brass label. It had, alternatives 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 completed in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, expecting new life, on the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in your life, your journey over the shadows and mountain highs. That has been slightly an element of 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 was about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrive at my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We’ve not a clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back in the painting and will also be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!