Way too many Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this in the blog which is just so very odd like that things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting simply just recently removed it through the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to along side it in the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I had created a photo i planned to paint, since i was thinking about life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The image was of your mountain, even as we are coming down from the top. I knew I needed it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. So I created a canvas. I knew before hand how the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just one or two hours into it on the first day. The second day, I took the painting with me towards the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It had been some epic struggle in memory!

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

But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. On the botton from 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 Plein air painting I needed carried out in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, looking forward to new life, away and off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in your life, your journey from the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a little bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people happened to have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t come to my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! We’ve not a clue!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back with the painting and you will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!