A lot of Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this within a blog because it’s so very odd this way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting in support of recently removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the inside from the studio. A month ago, I needed a picture that I wished to paint, because I was considering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The picture was of your mountain, once we are coming down through the top. I knew I needed it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. And so i designed a canvas. I knew in advance the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just one or two hours with it about the first day. The next day, I took the painting with me at night towards the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

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

But here is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies ah. About the botton with the frame was a brass label. It had, as yet 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 carried out in the original 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 often a painting about our battles in your life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. That was somewhat element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that individuals became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, where in the title might be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though had not come to my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I’ve no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back in the painting and are sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!