Too Many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this within a blog since it is just so very odd this way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting and just just lately took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the inside from the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I had an image which i planned to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The image was of an mountain, once we are coming down from the top. I knew I wanted it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. And so i developed a canvas. I knew in advance that the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be a couple of hours into it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting beside me on the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames which one inch particular we had just acquired located mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But here is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. About the botton in the frame was obviously 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 Classical impressionism I had created carried out in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, expecting new life, on the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in life, your way through the shadows and mountain highs. That was a bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that individuals happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were concerning 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?! I have no clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back with the painting and will also be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!