Lots of Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this in the blog because it’s so that very odd that way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and only just lately took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the medial side inside the studio. A month ago, I had created a graphic i planned to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The image was of an mountain, once we are decreasing from your top. I knew I want to it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. And so i made a canvas. I knew beforehand the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a few hours in it on the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me at night for the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It had been a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames and also this one inch particular that we had just acquired came to mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But here’s the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies ah. On the botton from the frame would be 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 needed done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, waiting for new life, on the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in everyday life, your way from the shadows and mountain highs. That was a little bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that individuals happened to have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrived at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back in the painting and you will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!