Tedo Best

(tan tray with leaves)
glazed ceramic and organic matter
17″ x 18″ (damaged, Family Permanent Collection)

“Clay – delicate, gritty, powerful, fragile, beautiful and crude – its endless possibilities as containers and displayers of food, emotions, and ideas makes it for me, a fascinating, frustrating joy.’

-tedo

Garden Path
(red, dark brown, white and blue mosaic on white background)
glazed ceramic mosaic 10.5″ across $250

Desertscape (red, orange, and cream mosaic on tan and white background)
glazed ceramic mosaic
12.5″ across $250

“Enfoldments” describes the work of Tedo Best according to one friend and critic.

(blue leaves) glazed ceramic
13″ across damaged Family Permanent Collection

Her ceramic vessels, mostly raku fired, tend to fold and wrap as if to own their contents.

(quilted collage mailing) mixed media quilted into plastic 8″ x 21″
Johnsons’ Permanent Collection

(quilted collage mailing) mixed media quilted into plastic 8″ x 21″ (reverse)
Johnsons’ Permanent Collection

Tedo has a degree in Dress Design from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she met Bob Coombs and Diana and Mel Johnson, The Chicago 4. She is a graduate of San Jose State University, and studied with proteges of Paul Soldner, the father of modern Raku.

Bird of Paradise (on black plate)
ceramic 12″ across $250

Seascape (turquoise, white, brown)
Glazed Ceramic 11.5″ across $250

She is widowed, has four children and eight grandchildren, and lives in Chico, California.

(black tray with figure)
glazed ceramic 15.5″ x 14.5″ $250

(white tray)
glazed ceramic 14″ across $175