Too Many Coinscidences: These kind of Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this within a blog which is simply so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting simply recently took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the inside from the studio. A month ago, I’d a picture i planned to paint, because I was thinking about life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The image was of the mountain, even as we are coming down in the top. I knew I needed it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. I really made a canvas. I knew in advance how the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a couple of hours with it about the first day. The second day, I took the painting with me at night towards the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out some epic struggle in memory!

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

But this is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. Around the botton with the frame was 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 Jessica Henry I needed completed in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, awaiting new life, off and away to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in your life, right onto your pathway over the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people happened to have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could possibly be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrive at my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back in the painting and will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!