IT was fitting that artist Jeremy Gardiner could be found deep in conversation with a leading geomorphologist when the latest exhibition of his work opened at a show at Bournemouth University's Atrium Gallery.

For Gardiner's work - long inspired by the ancient Purbeck landscape - explores the Jurassic coast in a manner that is complementary to scientific enquiry.

As the geomorphologist in question, Professor Vincent May, points out, both scientist and artist scan the landscape: "One attempting to decipher and understand its patterns, origins and processes, the other absorbing and interpreting the spirit and sense of place."

In a stunning selection of monoprints and one magnficent work in jesmonite and acrylic, Gardiner captures that spirit with rare understanding.

Working from a studio in Bath and a remote workshop in Norway, he puts artistic skills and more than 40 years of looking and learning to understand the Dorset coast to good effect. He has found what Professor May describes as a way of "telling very complicated stories where most of the text is missing".

Jeremy Gardiner's paintings and monoprints are on exhibition until April 21.