TWO new exhibitions, three festival-themed weekends and one week-long series of events and activities will bring Harewood to life this autumn in a celebration of wellbeing, food, craft and harvest.

More than 40 events and activities will be staged - from a performance by a 40-piece male voice choir, outdoor yoga, cookery demonstrations and wreath workshops, to welly walks and an artisan food and drinks fair. Many of the events are free to enjoy once through the gate.

Two new exhibitions have opened this month. Remembering Repton looks at the work of Humphry Repton on the bicentenary of his death. Successor to ‘Capability’ Brown, he was the leading gardener of his generation.

The exhibition features proposals, drawings and watercolours that he presented to the Lascelles family following visit to Harewood in 1800 and 1802. A newly commissioned film by artist and film-maker Simon Warner will also feature.

The second exhibition, Seeds to Table, by artist and illustrator Kate McGuire, fills The terrace gallery with meticulously observed images of edible plants, fruit and vegetables in pencil, ink and watercolour.

Jane Marriott, Trust Director, says; “We’ve been programming a regularly changing diary of events and exhibitions over the past year at Harewood that present some of the finest local, national and international talent. Seeds of Hope, our commemoration of the end of the First World War, leads us nicely into autumn, with the reaping of a fabulous harvest from the walled garden over the next two months and the move to our Autumn Glory Festival and autumnal exhibitions until we temporarily close on November 4.

“Whether it’s a new discovery, such as the work of artist and illustrator Kate McGuire, who originally visited some years ago to study and draw the plants in the Walled Garden, or an immersive experience with our live music or artisan food and craft fair, there is always something new to discover at Harewood.”