Ruby Silvious is internationally recognized for her miniature paintings and collages on the used tea bag. On January 3, 2015, she started a project called 363 Days of Tea, a visual daily record of her impression of the moment, using the emptied-out tea bag as her canvas, and altering it to create a new work of art every day for 363 days. She draws, paints, prints and collages moody, evocative and sometimes whimsical art on used teabag paper. She is the author of 363 Days of Tea: A Visual Journal on Used Teabags (Mascot Books, 2016), and the newly-released Reclaimed Canvas: Reimagining the Familiar (Mascot Books, 2019). In her new book, Ruby wants viewers to keep an open mind and think beyond the boundaries of what they may consider traditional art.

Her paintings on tea bags, some inspired by her travels around the world, have been featured in numerous publications including CNN Travel, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Good Morning America/ABC News, and the internationally syndicated Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Silvious was educated in the U.S. and Asia; she currently lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her art is exhibited internationally, and is featured in public and private collections.

Most recent international exhibitions
In July 2019, Silvious exhibited her work in Agios Ioannis, Greece, as a result of a culturally immersive art residency program at Mudhouse Residency in Crete. Prior to that, in March 2019, Silvious' art was featured in a solo exhibit at Creative Space Hayashi, a gallery in Chigasaki, Nakagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2017, marking the introduction of a new international artist-in-residency program, Silvious was the first resident artist at LM Studio in Hyères, at the southern tip of France’s illustrious Côte d’Azur region, where she showcased paintings inspired by her visit, in a solo exhibit, Printemps en Provence: 26 Days of Tea in France.

b. 1957 Tacloban City, Philippines