Momentum by Calie Durant

Acrylic on canvas with white mat and maple frame
24" h x 18" w painting - framed at 28" h x 22" w x 1" d
Professionally wired and ready to hang

Calie Durant is an abstract painter whose work bridges a lifelong dedication to visual communication with a sustained commitment to a practice shaped through layered inquiry and revision. She studied graphic design in art school before earning her BFA with a major in painting. Raised in Hawai‘i, she was drawn early to the relationships between color, form, and atmosphere, sensitivities that would later inform both her design career and her studio practice.

Before turning fully toward painting, Calie worked in branding and advertising as an art director, designer, and strategist in New York and San Francisco. She led creative teams and crafted cohesive visual systems across web, mobile, and print. During this time, she partnered with renowned clients including Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, Ogilvy & Mather, and Landor Associates. This background refined her approach to composition, structure, and visual clarity, elements that now underpin the disciplined yet expansive nature of her abstract work.

In 2021, Calie moved back to O‘ahu with her husband and two children. She now paints from her home studio in Honolulu, where a sense of rhythm, openness, and spatial awareness informs the ongoing evolution of her practice.

Momentum explores the quiet force that builds beneath the surface before movement becomes inevitable. Greens layer and press forward, carrying the energy of growth that cannot be rushed yet refuses to stay still. Organic lines weave through the composition like roots and pathways, suggesting connection, persistence, and forward pull."

This painting holds the feeling of becoming in motion. Not a single moment, but the accumulation of intention, pressure, and life choosing to move. It invites sustained looking, allowing the eye to travel, pause, and return, revealing new rhythms over time.  - Calie Durant