Kaleidoscope by Calie Durant

Acrylic on canvas, mounted to wood cradled panel - framed in light oak-toned aluminum
30" h x 30" w painting - framed at 31" h x 31" w x 1.5" d
Professionally wired and ready to hang

Currently displayed at the Mauna Lani, Auberge Resort, 5th floor south hall.

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.

Kaleidoscope is a meditation on disruption and discovery. It reflects the freedom that emerges when structure is loosened and expectations are set aside, allowing something unexpected to take shape.

This painting began as an exploration without rules. Layers of color move like fractured clouds, breaking apart to reveal a quiet geometry beneath. The diamond form emerges not as a focal point to control the composition, but as something uncovered through the process itself. 

Kaleidoscope invites curiosity rather than certainty. Its shifting forms and intersecting planes create a sense of movement that changes with sustained looking, offering new relationships between color, shape, and space over time.

Let this painting be a reminder to release rigid ideas and trust what can be created from what remains.  - Calie Durant