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About Sally Colledge - Architectural Artist

Detail from Llanfyllin High Street showing the artist's home Sally Colledge is a self taught artist who specialises in fine and very detailed pen and ink drawings.

Sally moved to Wales in 1998 to be inspired by the beautiful scenery and open a craft shop, but retail soon proved to be too time consuming and Sally now fits work in around her busy home life.

Why Cofa's Tree? The name comes from Sally's home town of Coventry, believed to be a bastardisation of the old English name of Cofa's Tree.

Sally works from photographs and takes commissions from businesses and individuals to produce a unique piece of art.

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Cofastree and Coventry

Coventry was first a settlement in the Bronze Age. The lakes, rivers, forestation and mild climate made it an ideal place to settle and live. Coventry is older than Birmingham and Leicester, and the first significant settled grouping is recognised as having inhabited a Saxon nunnery in around 700 AD. Cofa was a characted who lived there, and the edge of his territory was marked with a tree, so it is thought that this is the origin of the name "Cofastree" which later became Coventria, Coventrev, Covintry and eventually Coventry.

In 1345, King Edward III granted Coventry a royal "Charter of Incorporation". this led to Coventry being regarded as a City. It became a very large, powerful and well-protected city, smaller only than London, York and Bristol for a while. In 1451, Henry VI bestowed the status of "County" on Coventry, which it retained until 1842 when it was then absobed into the County of Warwickshire.

 Queen Margaret moved the Royal Court to Coventry due to its strong fortifications, when her husband, Henry VI was ill until1461. This then became the virtual capital of England.

 The main source of Coventry's wealth has been farming and agriculture - this later developed into a thriving textile industry. The actual settlement of Coventry has been created by the grouping of a number of villages including Allesley, Earlsdon, Longford, Keresley and Tile Hill, which give it its shape and infrastructure.

Later industries to thrive in Coventry were watch making, bicycle making, motorbikes and cars, machine tools, arms,  aircraft and telecommunications.  Many people of a whole variety of origins and cultures have been drawn to Coventry because of its industry. During its history it has had a maximum population of 370,000 in the 1970's.

Coventry still has many working farms and large open green spaces.

There are two universities in Coventry, The University of Warwick and Coventry University.

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