About

Girling made large–scale abstract paintings, often using both acrylic paint and collage, which embraced the sensibilities of American abstraction pitted against a distinctive English sensibility and rigorous, traditional training at the Royal Academy Schools. Influenced by early trips to North America with her husband, Anthony Caro, and the paintings of friends and contemporaries such as Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, Girling’s paintings from the 1970’s employed full-arm and full-body gestures to explore the possibilities of acrylic paint and atmospheric colour.

By the 1980’s, Girling …