Asperatus as well as being the title of the exhibition is also one of the images on show. Asperatus is a classification of a cloud form, derived from the Latin and best translated as to agitate. In this picture a boiling mass of cloud-forms, do just that, dominating nine-tenths of the image and clearly agitating the woodland beneath it.

Oxfordshire-based photographer Nick White explains: “I am captivated by the beauty of the sky, and I relish the challenge of trying to capture the transient nature of some of the optical effects.” White mounts his limited edition, digital photographic prints and film stills on to aluminium which creates a clean, precise finish. Illuminating sub-titles succinctly describe the science of the phenomena of each skyscape.

Two photographs called Cumulonimbus show rain clouds as a black-and-white and a colour image. The brooding immensity of the cloud overpowers a lone house and a rural idyll of a landscape. This is one of the clouds responsible for the Boscastle floods of 2004.

Comet Hale-Bopp (above) was captured in 1997, at Chilton, Buckinghamshire. The beautiful trajectory of the comet is given emphasis by the mature trees in the foreground, a juxtaposition that links the comet briefly to planet Earth. Every 2,400 years Earth is included in Hale-Bopp’s orbit.

White’s consummate mastery of his medium and of the science that underpins his subject matter makes this a fascinating and moving exhibition. Made all the more remarkable by the fact that the majority of photographs were taken in Oxfordshire.

Art Jericho until February 6. Wednesday to Sunday.