Way too many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in a blog which is so that very odd doing this things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and only just recently took it off from the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the medial side from the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I needed a photo that we wished to paint, because I was thinking about life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The look was of an mountain, even as we are decreasing in the top. I knew I wanted it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. So I designed a canvas. I knew ahead of time how the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours in it on the first day. The next day, I took the painting beside me to the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames and this one out of particular that we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here’s in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. On the botton from 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 Plein air painting I had created carried out the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting 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 through the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been slightly element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that individuals became of have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be in regards to the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we had not visit my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! We’ve no idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back from the painting and will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!