A lot of Coinscidences: These types of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in the blog because it’s so that very odd this way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting in support of recently took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the side within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I needed an image that I wanted to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The style was of the mountain, even as we are coming down from your top. I knew I needed it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. And so i designed a canvas. I knew beforehand that the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a couple hours involved with it about the first day. The next 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 turned out some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames which one inch particular that people had just acquired came to mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But the following is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. On the botton of 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 impressionism I had carried out in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, expecting new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in everyday life, your journey from the shadows and mountain highs. That was slightly a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people happened to have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been in regards to the decent down a mountain side, where in the title might be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t visit my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! We have not a clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back with the painting and are sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!