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Lightening Shadows belongs to a series of paintings Victoria Crowe painted after her neighbour and shepherd, Jenny Armstrong had died; painted from memory and revealing a deeper understanding of an ordinary life made extraordinary. The artist has arranged the mantel with a series of familiar objects including Jenny’s Victorian blue and white water jug which is filled with lunaria. The centre photograph is of the Fraser boy; a young man holding a dog – in the 1950s and 60s, he had lived with his mother and father at the Gate Cottage in Kittleyknowe. The internal wallpaper has faded and is in sharp contrast to the view which can be seen from the window on the right; two sheep graze, whilst the winter trees on the horizon reveal the Pentland Hills beyond. There is light on the landscape and the life cycle marches on.
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