It only makes sense that the images in the “Feast of Fine Art” currently at Copia celebrate the outdoors in gorgeous diversity. The plein air works from six Northern California artists will be auctioned at the end of this month as part of the annual Feast of Eden fundraiser for the Land Trust of Napa County.

“Each year they’ve had art as a component,” said Bob Pallas, director of Connolly Ranch, who organized this year’s show. “This year I wanted fewer artists with more work of higher quality.”

Pallas said he contacted artists he’d met going to art shows with his own artist wife and narrowed the field to Kevin Courter, Kim Lordier, Nancy MacDonald, Kristine Pallas, Randall Sexton and Keith Wicks. They responded with more than 60 works,

Their works can be viewed — and bid on — online at www.feastoffineart. The paintings not sold online will be auctioned at the Land Trust’s annual fundraising event, the Feast of Eden, on Nov. 3. Forty percent of the proceeds from the art sales will go to Connolly Ranch.

This year Feast of Eden takes place at the Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga. The event also includes a wine reception, live entertainment, silent and live auctions and a dinner created by Tony Knickerbocker, paired with Napa Valley wines.

This year the event will honor conservation easement donors, and special auction lots have been created that feature items from protected properties throughout Napa County, including wines from Heitz Cellars, Shafer, and Joseph Phelps Vineyards, a special event at the White Barn in St. Helena, and the ever-popular Drive Your Own Cab — a custom cabernet sauvignon crush from Andy Beckstoffer. Other lots include dinners at La Toque, the Napa Valley Reserve and the French Laundry; a private party at Spottswoode Estate catered by Cindy Pawlcyn; a Santa Barbara County wine lovers’ getaway; and entertainment packages from the Napa Valley Opera House and Festival Del Sole.

Since its founding in 1976, The Land Trust has protected more than 50,000 acres of land, more than 10 percent of Napa County.

“Conservation easement donors embody our mission to preserve Napa’s agricultural and natural treasures,” said event chair Emma Swain, COO of Sebastiani Winery and a former Land Trust president. “Without them, there simply wouldn’t be a Land Trust. We are thrilled at the opportunity to tell them how much we appreciate the deep personal commitment they’ve made to Napa County,”

Tickets for Feast of Eden, $425 per person, are available through 252-1135, or at www.napalandtrust.org.

Pallas is also at work organizing another art show that will debut next year. The Napa Valley Art Festival, a juried show with 30 to 40 artists, will take place in the Copia gardens. “It will all be representational art,” said Pallas.

For further information about the art shows call Bob Pallas at 256-3828. For Land Trust information, call Mary Ann at 252-1135