The team behind a painting at a cancer centre is dedicating it to a Shropshire woman who died before it was completed.

Carol Jenkins, 49, from Oswestry, was a patient at The Cancer Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham who helped create The Tropical Pool, which depicts a scene at Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens.

Today her husband David travelled to Birmingham for the unveiling of the painting at the gardens.

“For the centre to dedicate the painting to Carol is simply priceless and an example of the sort of amazing kindness that has been shown to us since Carol died,” he said.

“We had also visited the botanical gardens one day when we were passing time in Birmingham between treatments. Carol loved the gardens so the picture was very special to us.

Mrs Jenkins, a teaching assistant at Weston Rhyn school, was diagnosed with leukaemia in April.

She was treated at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital before going for radical, stem cell treatment to the Queen Elizabeth.

She died in November, leaving her husband and sons, Alan, 19, and Barry, 17.

Mr Jenkins said: “She liked creative arts and was really supportive of the arts project in Birmingham.”

Led by artist Lizzy Lee, the painting was created by hospital staff and patients.

Each of the 81 sections was made by an individual and the project took about six weeks to complete.

It goes on display at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens until February 28 before its permanent display in the cancer centre.

By Sue Austin