Lots of Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this inside a blog which is so very odd like that things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting in support of just recently removed it through the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the medial side in the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I needed a picture which i desired to paint, because I was considering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The look was of the mountain, once we are decreasing from the top. I knew I needed it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. And so i made a canvas. I knew before hand that this painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only one or two hours with it about the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me to the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

We been 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! how much an odd size!

But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. On the botton from the frame would have been 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 Plein air painting I had carried out in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, expecting new life, on along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in your life, right onto your pathway through the shadows and mountain highs. Which was a little bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that individuals became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t visit my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I’ve not a clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back of the painting and you will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!