Too Many Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this in a blog which is so that very odd that way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and just just took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to along side it from the studio. A month ago, I’d an image which i wished to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The look was of an mountain, as we are coming down in the top. I knew I needed it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. I really made a canvas. I knew beforehand that this painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours involved with it for the first day. The next day, I took the painting when camping on the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames this also one out of particular we had just acquired came to mind. I ran 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 Christies auction house. Around the botton with the frame was 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 Jessica Henry I had carried out the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, awaiting new life, off and away to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in your life, your way through the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been somewhat an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were about the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title may be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t 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?! We’ve not a clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back of the painting and will also be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!