A lot of Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this inside a blog because it’s just so very odd like that things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting in support of just recently took it off from the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side from the studio. A month ago, I needed a photo i wished to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The style was of an mountain, once we are decreasing from your top. I knew I want to it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. And so i developed a canvas. I knew ahead of time the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours in it around the first day. The second day, I took the painting with me at night towards the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames and this one inch particular that we had just acquired found mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But here’s the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. About the botton with the frame would have been 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 Classical impressionist artist I had carried out the initial 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 a painting about our battles in everyday life, the journey from the shadows and mountain highs. Which was slightly a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we happened to have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrive at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! We’ve not a clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back in the painting and you will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!