Lots of Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this within a blog since it is just so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting simply recently removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to along side it inside the studio. A month ago, I had an image i planned to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The look was of your mountain, as we are coming down in the top. I knew I desired it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. I really created a canvas. I knew beforehand the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours with it about the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me for the beach and was 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 were discussing frames this also one out of particular that individuals had just acquired located mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here’s the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. For the botton of the frame was obviously a brass label. It had, alternatives 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 Jessica Henry I had created completed in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, waiting for new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in life, the journey over the shadows and mountain highs. That has been slightly included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back in the painting and are sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!