“Open spaces are exciting,” Rod Frederick says. “In them I have a chance to get away and perhaps get a glimpse of my favorite animal, the mountain goat” — which just so happens to be the subject of Frederick's On the Rocks. Few people have witnessed what artist Rod Frederick has seen first hand.

In this painting, he is able to bring the viewer on his adventures high above the timberline. “The summers are short in the high country. This is a great vantage point, safe from predators and with few trees to block the view.” The treacherous terrain of On the Rocks is difficult hiking for even the advanced climber, but Rod Frederick is as adept as his subject, and well aware of the lengths to which one must sometimes go to create the perfect painting. And what a view it is!