I planned to share this inside a blog since it is just so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting simply just lately removed it from the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side in the studio. A month ago, I had an image i wished to paint, because I was pondering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The image was of a mountain, even as we are decreasing from the top. I knew I wanted it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. So I developed a canvas. I knew in advance how the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.
I was only a couple of hours into it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting beside me towards the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!
We was discussing frames and this one in particular that people had just acquired located mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!
But the following is in which the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. Around the botton from the frame would be 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 completed in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, looking forward to new life, off and away to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, right onto your pathway over the shadows and mountain highs. That has been slightly a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we became of have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t visit my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! We have no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back of the painting and are sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!
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