Lots of Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this in the blog because it is just so very odd this way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting in support of recently removed it from the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the medial side inside the studio. A month ago, I’d an image which i desired to paint, because I was considering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The look was of the mountain, once we are decreasing in the top. I knew I want to it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. So I created a canvas. I knew in advance that the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours with it around the first day. The other day, I took the painting beside me on the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It had been some epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames and this one inch particular we had just acquired located mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies ah. For the botton with the frame would be 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 carried out in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, looking forward to 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 life, the journey with the shadows and mountain highs. Which was slightly included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I’ve little idea!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back of the painting and will also be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!