I desired to share this inside a blog since it is so that very odd this way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and just just lately took it off from the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the medial side in the studio. A couple weeks ago, I needed an image that I wished to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The image was of an mountain, once we are decreasing from the top. I knew I desired it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. I really designed a canvas. I knew before hand how the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.
I only agreed to be a couple hours involved with it for the first day. The second day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!
We been discussing frames which one in particular that we had just acquired came to mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!
But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies ah. Around the botton from the frame was obviously a brass label. It had, up to now 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’d carried out the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, waiting for new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in your life, your way with the shadows and mountain highs. That has been somewhat a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we happened to have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were in regards to the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could possibly be taken many different ways. 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 unknown, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I have no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back in the painting and will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!
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