Painter, printmaker, collagist, scraperboard artist and teacher, born and lived in Wallasey, Cheshire. He attended Wallasey School of Art, 1936, and Royal College of Art, 1939–43, teachers including Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Percy Horton and Edward Bawden. During World War II Jardine moved to Cumbria, becoming absorbed in the landscape of the Lake District. From 1944–80 he was a lecturer in graphics at Liverpool College of Art. Jardine’s own pictures, usually on a small scale, were early influenced by Indian miniature painting and Surrealism, especially Max Ernst, collages using pieces of newspaper, sweet wrappers and advertisements. Jardine also painted many portraits. He showed with Sandon Studios Society and Liverpool Academy both of which he was a member, RA, RCamA and elsewhere.