Thomas Aquinas Daly is an American contemporary landscape and still life painter, graphic artist and magazine illustrator of hunting and fishing genre. Using nuances of light and atmospheriecs, Daly strives for a poetic tone in his oil and watercolor painting,s reflecting his reverence for land and nature and his sportsman's love of roaming the landscape. On his website, Daly cites a critic's comments as an accurate reflection of gentle approatch to his creativity: "His work is about the land---quiet, confident meditations upon the spirit of a place withouth the need for assertiveness."

Educated as a graphic artist at the University of Buffalo, Daly spent 23 years working in the commercial printing bus...