As leaves drop and flowers fade, Montgomery Bell Academy Art Show fills autumn’s landscape with an all-season array of creative works available for sale Nov. 5-7. Headlined by Nashville-based painter Ed Nash, the juried show gathers 50 artists from across the country, selected from more than 160 applicants.

Speaking of landscapes, the 12th annual MBA Art Show delivers a diverse ecosystem of botanical- and nature-inspired works in two and three dimensions, including metalwork, embroidery and jewelry.

Georgia-based artist Karen Davis offers a bouquet of modern tole botanicals made from copper sheeting, wire, and paint, while Nashville-based Jennifer Staples captures swaths of meadow on her loose abstract impressionist canvases, and Nashville artist Madeline Rains explores florals, animals and still lives in classical oil painting.

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Tara Burt from Mississippi paints whimsical flowers, butterflies and fish, while Nashville-based Meredith Lincoln embroiders birds on textiles -- in addition to composing vibrant dot landscapes on canvas -- and Franklin-based painter Jeanette Chasteen Leake intersperses her vibrant florals with paintings of women in domestic settings.

MBA alumnus Matt Reasor ’96, known for hand-painted wallpaper, large-scale murals, and his collection of Tennessee wildflowers hanging at the Graduate Hotel, brings his nature-inspired paintings, while alum Michael Griffin ‘98 brings canvases developed from plein air landscape studies from around the world.

Renee Evans paints dreamlike landscapes reminiscent of her mural at Perenn Bakery and Porter Rivers fills landscape paintings with inspiration from Southern architecture, farmland, and riverbanks of his hometown, Selma, Ala.

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It’s not all birds and flowers in the halls of the Davis Building when Carden Avenue jewelers Suzanne Crook and Carolyn Greenfield bring their classic-with-an-edge demi-fine and fine baubles and multi-disciplinary Nashville artist Jernicya Onyekwelu displays silhouettes and traditional figures that reflect the Black and African diaspora and exemplify modern and tribal cultural studies and fashion throughout different decades of people of color.

And of course, featured artist Ed Nash will bring his canvases inspired by the Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic, celebrating the beauty of imperfection. Who knows, if you squint at the oversize mixed-media abstractions and let your imagination roam, you just might see birds flying over a landscape of flowers.

MBA Art Show launches with a free cocktail reception open to the public on Thursday, Nov. 5, 5 to 9 p.m., and continues Friday, Nov. 6, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 7, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.