Victoria Crowe met the shepherd Jenny Armstrong in 1968, after moving from London to Kittleyknowe in the Scottish Borders. The two women were neighbours and developed a strong friendship which centred on the remote countryside where they lived. Armstrong often featured in Crowe’s paintings in the following fifteen years as a dark silhouette against the land. As Armstrong grew older and increasingly housebound, Crowe began to focus instead on interior portraits and scenes in Armstrong’s home. This atmospheric charcoal drawing was made a year after Armstrong died and focusses on the belongings she left behind.