AN INNOVATIVE piece of artwork created by a former Hampshire schoolteacher has gone on display at a London museum.

Sharon White created the piece using lace, ribbons and bows taken from bras signed by celebrities including Loose Women’s Denise Welch, Strictly Come Dancing’s Tess Daly and Location Location Location’s Kirstie Allsop to raise awareness of breast cancer and charity Breast Cancer Care.

The mum-of-two and step-mum-of-one started the project in March, which saw her travel the country with charity Breast Cancer Care holding art workshops with 60 women affected by the disease.

The 41-year-old University of Southampton graduate from Highcliffe had been head of art at The Mountbatten School in Romsey for 16 years but had to leave her job in 2012 when she fell ill with pleurisy, a condition affecting the lungs, causing chest pains, fatigue and shortness of breath.

Healthy again, she has since begun an arts and crafts tutoring business, mumbojumbopaint.co.uk.

The new textured artwork depicting the Tree of Life measures 190cm by 105cm and was unveiled at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum by actress and former Loose Women panellist Denise Welch and Jian Farhadi, head of oncoplastic surgery at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital in London.

The work will be on display until December 1.

For more information about Breast Cancer Care, visit: breastcancer care.org.uk.