Too Many Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this in a blog because it is simply so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting simply just recently took it off from the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the side inside the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I had a photo i planned to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The style was of the mountain, once we are coming down from the top. I knew I want to it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. Therefore i made a canvas. I knew before hand that this painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

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

We been discussing frames and also this one in particular that we had just acquired came to mind. I ran down to 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 ah. Around the botton of the frame was obviously 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 had completed in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, awaiting new life, away and off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in your life, your journey with the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a little bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been in regards to the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could 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 as though either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I’ve no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back from the painting and will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!