A graduate of California's renowned Art Center College of Design, Thomas Needham has received numerous honors and awards for his oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. Needham's work has appeared in corporate brochures, sports publications, exhibits, and hang in many private and public collections throughout the United States. Thomas resides in Appling, Georgia, where he paints and teaches painting classes at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta. 

Thomas has exhibited with the National Art Museum of Sport and has paintings in the Pentagon. In 2011 his watercolor book "Seascapes and Sunsets" was published by Walter Foster Publishing.