Lots of Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this in the blog since it is so very odd this way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting and only just recently removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the medial side in the studio. A month ago, I’d a photo that I desired to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The image was of your mountain, even as are coming down from the top. I knew I desired it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew beforehand how the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just one or two hours in it on the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me at night towards the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames which one out of particular we had just acquired came to mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But the following is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. For the botton from the frame was 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 had created completed in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, expecting new life, on along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in your life, right onto your pathway from the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame we happened to have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though had not visit my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back in the painting and are sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!