Joshua Miles

Joshua Miles is a printmaker specialising in reduction linocuts, a medium that has shaped her creative life from an early age. Her first encounter with printmaking came as a child, watching her aunt carve woodcuts in the German Expressionist style, often illustrating mythology. That early fascination with the connection between art and spirituality has stayed with her ever since. 

She went on to study Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, majoring in painting, and spent 15 years working in oils — often painting en plein air — while always returning to her first love: printmaking. Over time, her passion for the reduction block process deepened, first through woodcuts and later through linocuts. Her technique is strongly influenced by Japanese printmakers, particularly their use of selective rolling. She often describes using her rollers like brushes, painting directly onto the block.