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Tea Bag Book
3″x 3″, watercolor and gouache on used 2-1/2″ square tea bags
Tea Bag Dress Book
3″w x 4.75″h, cut images, ephemera and used tea bags
Pizza Book
2-7/8″ diameter, watercolor and gouache on 2-3/8″ diam used round tea bags, computer-generated graphics on 3″x 3″ Pizza Box
Ruby Silvious 
www.rubysilvious.com
Instagram: @ruby_silvious
BIO
Ruby Silvious is internationally recognized for her miniature paintings and collages on the used tea bag. 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, and Reclaimed Canvas: Reimagining the Familiar.
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, PBS, Vogue Italia, Cosmopolitan China, and the internationally syndicated Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Silvious was educated in the U.S. and Asia and currently resides in Coxsackie, NY. Her art is exhibited internationally and is featured in public and private collections.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My artist’s books result from a smorgasbord of upcycled media, techniques, and ideas, many of which are whimsical. I have been a tea bag artist since 2015, so my first artist’s book was naturally created with used tea bags, the primary substrate I use for my art.
Since then, I have created handmade books utilizing paper scraps, leftover monoprints, found papers, and various recycled packaging materials. Techniques in my bookmaking incorporate cyanotype, printmaking, rusting, and slow stitching, a meditative practice I find very relaxing.
Still in experimentation mode, my recent work uses fabric, stitching, and mixed media collages. Reimagining the discarded as art inspires new forms of creativity. I want viewers to think beyond what they may consider traditional art.