Art Residents

Teri K. Miller

As a fine art photographer, Teri creates visual meditations that blur the line between the seen and the sensed. Drawn to abstraction in nature—fractured reflections, shifting colours, and fluid movement—she explores themes of impermanence, solitude, and transformation. Her work often focuses on liminal spaces where light, water, and motion intersect. Through long exposures, intentional framing, and painterly colour, the images evoke visual haiku—brief, contemplative moments that invite viewers to slow down and reconnect with quiet beauty.

Teri’s thoughts on her upcoming residency at Cortijo el Moro…

"I hope to slow down and truly listen to the landscape. The light, space, and‬ colours of Andalucía feel like an invitation—to reflect, to experiment, and to begin a new body of‬ work shaped by the quiet beauty of this place. I’m drawn to moments‬ of transition and abstraction, and I look forward to translating the textures and rhythms of this‬ environment into images that feel both intimate and timeless.‬”

Find out more about Teri's work here.

Rosy Prue

Originally trained in Printed Textile Design, Rosy now best defines herself as a mixed-media
artist. She enjoys expressive experimentation, regularly combining different materials and
methods to build layers.

Her work demonstrates a propensity for mark-making, pattern, surface and colour -
sometimes illustrative, sometimes abstract. She particularly enjoys exploring combinations of
drawing, simple print-making techniques and collage – often fusing separate hand-created
elements digitally to form a unique image.

Rosy loves to play with a variety of materials and approaches and to respond intuitively
before then selecting and choosing areas of interest to build from and focus in on. She
considers herself somewhat of a creative magpie...drawn to things that grab her attention be
they words, phrases, found imagery, metaphors, scribbles, shapes, natural
objects...collecting these together, documenting, altering and translating them to create
something new.

Rosy's thoughts on her upcoming residency at Cortijo el Moro...

        "My intention would be to immerse myself in the sights, sounds, light and ambience of your lovely setting. To enjoy sustained opportunity to notice and gather fragments of visual (and written) information about a newly experienced place and to have time to play with these fragments, to develop and transform them. To allow the experience to refill and refresh my creative ‘tank’ and to find time to reflect on who I am as a practitioner following a prolonged period of grief and change. To look, to play, to observe, to make marks, to respond, to be inspired. Maybe to get my hands on and into some clay! Certainly to draw, collage, print, paint, digitally combine and adapt."

Find out more about Rosy's work here. 

Abi Moffat

Abi Moffat is an artist living and working in Hastings, UK. Abi was awarded the Frank Bowling Scholarship in 2017 to complete a Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, which she graduated from in 2018. Abi has completed a number of public commissions for the likes of TfL and Leeds City Council. Abi now works from her studio in Hastings, and is currently part of the Turps Hastings Offsite Course, which finishes in June this year. Specialising in abstract painting, her works are reactionary explorations of her surroundings. Abi is interested in the psychological and emotional impact of colour and the power of translating natural light within a painted image. 

Abi's thoughts on her upcoming residency at Cortijo el Moro...

        "I’d be interested to use the residency to start working in an alfresco way, taking materials outside and practicing observational drawing, using the shifting times of the day to create varied abstracted landscapes."

        "I'm also hoping to experiment with my own pigments, from collecting surrounding rocks, chalk and land nearby to the Cortijo. I ultimately hope to make a body of work that celebrates the beauty and warmth of life in Southern Spain."

Find out more about Abi's work here. 

Laura Carey

Laura explores and questions ideas and aesthetics regarding memory and emotion, considering their impact in connection to individual, and shared, psychology. Conducting thorough subject research, she often applies a Conceptual approach of representation with ambiguity and aesthetic form, intending for audience insight and autonomy when encountering her work. She also explores more traditional approaches with oil painting portraiture; however her portraits are less about the sitter, and more about herself, showing an alternative approach to representation, and an idiosyncratic style of the sitter's eyes never facing the viewer.
 

Defying object, emotions become difficult to define. Interpreting such responses, Laura aims to
connect her audience and allow a more open conversation around difficult emotions and feelings.
Recently, she has been responding to the experience of grief, following the untimely deaths of her
parents in the past couple of years. Her ideas heavily shape her materiality, creating a rich and often multi-disciplinary practice in 2D and 3D forms, from contemporary portraiture, abstract, installation, and performance for more overtly vulnerable forms of expression. Archive and order to generate and maintain control within emotional trauma have also become a cathartic and critical aspect of her practice, and vehicle for understanding to allow her to better communicate with her viewer.

Using her experience and feelings, Laura seeks to address the universal from the personal,
challenging this binary. By referencing her own understanding of some more universal human
emotional challenges, such as grief, she hopes to break down taboo and censorship stigmatised bynfear. As performer and writer Lisa Kron observed, “The goal of autobiographical work should not be to tell stories about yourself but, instead, to use the details of your own life to illuminate or explore something more universal."

Laura's thoughts on her upcoming residency at Cortijo el Moro...

        "I will be hoping to work on some drawings and small clay works, alongside written works, which I am hoping to work into an audio piece, exploring the language used around grief against the reality of the changing experience."

Find out more about Laura's work here.

Jean Davey Winter

Jean Davey Winter is a mixed media artist who for many years managed to combine her personal practice with part, and then, full-time lecturing on a Fine Art degree course.

Jean is inspired by travel and has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. She has work in many public and private collections. 

She is a member of SoCo, South Coast Artists.

Jean's thoughts on her upcoming residency at Cortijo el Moro...

"As someone who's work has been consistently inspired by travel in it's many forms, the idea of spending time in a completely new environment seemed like the perfect opportunity to start thinking about a whole new body of work."

"I intend to work mainly in sketchbooks using mixed media. I find this the most productive way to gather as much information as possible. I am very excited by the idea of working in such a beautiful environment."

Find out more about Jean's work here.

Linzi Jones

Linzi Jones is a multimedia artist with a textile background. Her practice includes textiles, painting, printmaking and ceramics. She worked as a Designer Maker in knitted textiles for thirty years and has been working on her fine art and ceramic practice in recent years. 

Linzi is a member of SoCo Arts Group and Common Clay in East Sussex. 

Linzi's thoughts on her upcoming residency at Cortijo el Moro...

  "I hope to be stimulated during my stay at Cortijo el Moro by being exposed to the beautiful landscape and the varied colours this  produces, which will be a total contrast to the East Sussex Downs, and having the time to reflect on my work.

I am also going to be developing new ideas for shapes and glazes in the ceramic studio."

Find out more about Linzi's work here.