Gathering by Calie Durant

Acrylic on canvas
24" h x 24" w - unframed

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.

Gathering explores the convergence of movement, energy, and connection. Layers of blue, turquoise, and soft coastal tones flow across the surface, while intricate patterns and sweeping marks gather and weave together like currents meeting in the open water.

The painting reflects the moments in life when separate threads begin to come together, ideas, experiences, relationships, and possibilities finding their place within a larger whole. The layered forms suggest both movement and connection, creating a sense of energy that is continually shifting while remaining deeply intertwined.

Gathering invites us to notice what is coming together in our own lives and to embrace the beauty that can emerge when individual elements converge, overlap, and move forward as one.  - Calie Durant