Running from 23rd January to 7th June, the display will be the first time artist Charlotte Verity has exhibited inside a historic country house and the first time her work has been extensively showcased in the north of England.
Charlotte Verity,The Season Following will feature prints and paintings spanning the past 20 years, with several pieces on display for the first time. Charlotte Verity has immersed herself in her garden, tracking the seasons and the passing of time by painting and drawing out of doors and by bringing elements of the natural world into her studio to observe and to paint.
Zoë Hughes, head of public programme at Harewood House Trust, said: “We want our guests to experience the best Harewood has to offer through every season. We’ve got an incredible programme of events across the year for all ages and interests.
“Harewood House and its grounds bring nature and art together in one the greatest achievements of English Landscape gardening, so it is particularly well placed to launch 2026 with Charlotte Verity, The Season Following: an exhibition of paintings which focus on the beauty of every season.”
What to expect
Visitors will experience the changing seasons across five state rooms. Moving from winter through spring, summer and autumn, the exhibition will reflect patterns of nature, returning at the end with a grand winter painting.
The exhibition will be dotted with a series of painted poems both historic and contemporary, related to the seasons. In other areas of the House, visitors will also have the opportunity to view floral pieces from Harewood’s collection, including rarely displayed Sevres porcelain.
Charlotte Verity said: “To show works in this magnificent sequence of rooms has given me the opportunity to structure an exhibition in a way that exactly reflects the way I work: each painting in its season. Every one is an accumulation of hours of observation and looking closely, while finding ways of putting down what I see. In turn, I hope these paintings will enhance the experience of the natural world for our visitors. They will see things perhaps, a little bit differently.”
About Harewood House
Based in West Yorkshire, Harewood House was built in the 18th century using profits from the Transatlantic slave trade.
Nowadays, Harewood House Trust is now an accredited museum, boasting a vast collection of paintings. Visitors can explore the house to see Renaissance masterpieces, family portraits, landscape paintings and a collection of French and Chinese porcelain.
There is also over 140 acres of gardens, woodlands and parkland to experience, from the formal terrace to the walled garden and the lakeside gardens to the ruins of Gawthorpe Hall - a 13th century manor home to the Gascoigne family between the Norman and Georgian eras.
Visiting Harewood House
Charlotte Verity, The Season Following will be available to visit Friday to Sunday between 23rd January and 22nd March. It will then be open daily from 23rd March - 7th June.
Bookings of ten adults or more benefit from Harewood’s reduced group rates. Groups will also benefit from one free admission for the group organiser, free coach parking and complimentary admission for the driver.
Guided tours are also available at the House and gardens, exploring the history of the Lascelles family and Harewood’s gardening history. Topic tours also available on themes including Women of Harewood, Paintings and Portraiture and Film and TV at Harewood.
For more information about visiting Harewood House go to harewood.org.
