For artist Cicely Carew, process and presence might be just as meaningful as the remarkable artwork she creates. The visual artist, mom and yoga practitioner paints, works in mixed media and monotype printmaking and talks of loving, forgiving and healing as though living is art itself. She spends much of her time developing her work, cultivating happiness and making space to forgive herself and others for mistakes.
“When I try to control things, that’s when it gets messy. My art reminds me of that,” Carew says. “So, I let those mistakes stay there, or the messy things stay there because it reminds me to stay light and to laugh.”
That outlook informs the L.A. born, Cambridge-based artist’s newest project, “Ambrosia,” a dance of color and light that feels like walking beneath brilliantly hued clouds of red, green, orange, purple and yellow. The public art installation…
