Way too many Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this within a blog because it is so that very odd this way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and only just removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat on along side it in the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I had a photo that I desired to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The style was of the mountain, even as we are decreasing from the top. I knew I wanted it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. And so i developed a canvas. I knew beforehand the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be a few hours into it for the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting when camping to the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

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

But here’s the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. For the botton in the frame was a brass label. It had, until recently 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’d done in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, waiting for new life, away and off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, your way through the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been somewhat an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be concerning the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t come to my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back in the painting and will also be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!