Too Many Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in a blog because it is so very odd this way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting simply recently took it off from the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat on the inside in the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I had a photo that we planned to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The style was of an mountain, even as 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. I really made a canvas. I knew ahead of time the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a couple of hours with it for the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

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

But this is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. Around the botton in the frame would have been 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 done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, looking forward to new life, on the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in daily life, the journey from the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were in regards to the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrived at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We’ve no idea!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back of the painting and will also be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!