Way too many Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this within a blog because it’s so very odd like that things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting in support of just recently removed it through the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the side from the studio. A month ago, I had an image which i desired to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The image was of your mountain, as we are decreasing in the top. I knew I want to it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. And so i created a canvas. I knew in advance that this painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be a couple of hours involved with it around the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me to the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It had been a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

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

But here’s in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. On the botton with the frame would have been 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 Jessica Henry I had created completed in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, waiting for new life, on the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in your life, the journey through the shadows and mountain highs. That was a little bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we happened to have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be concerning the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t come to my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back from the painting and will also be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!