Lots of Coinscidences: These kind of Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this within a blog which is so very odd that way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and only just recently took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the medial side from the studio. A couple weeks ago, I’d a photo which i desired to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The style was of an mountain, even as we are coming down from the top. I knew I wanted it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. And so i made a canvas. I knew in advance the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be a couple of hours involved with it for the first day. The second day, I took the painting beside me on the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It had been some epic struggle in memory!

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

But here’s where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. On the botton with the frame would be 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 impressionism I had carried out the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, waiting for new life, away and off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in everyday life, your journey with the shadows and mountain highs. That was somewhat 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 was regarding the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t come to my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! We’ve no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back in the painting and you will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!