Hidden Tides by Calie Durant

Acrylic on canvas, mounted to wood cradled panels - unframed 
12" h x 12" w x 1.5" d each (set of 4)
Installed size will vary based on spacing between panels. 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.

Between what’s seen and what’s felt, something shifts. Revealed, then gone.

Hidden Tides draws from the ocean’s constant state of change, where clarity and depth exist together. Layers are built and disrupted over time, allowing moments of luminosity to emerge through areas left raw and unresolved.

Composed of four panels, the work extends beyond a single boundary. Each holds its own rhythm while remaining in quiet relation to the whole. Installed with space between them, the composition opens and continues outward.

The work invites a slower way of looking, one that resists definition in favor of feeling. Meaning moves through the surface rather than settling. A reflection on imperfection as something inherent, layered, and quietly complete. - Calie Durant