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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Can you not borrow one? Mine would love a nice long walk

Black and white border collie on a misty hill

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Breaking the chains!! Up the workers! Happy #MayDay 🙏@rickardsisters.com

Illustration in the Soviet style, of a triumphant worker breaking the chains of capitalism. From the Rickard Sisters' graphic novel adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Front cover of the graphic novel adaptation by the Rickard Sisters of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

An amazing and well-deserved rave review of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel. So it'll come as no surprise that the Rickard Sisters latest book has been shortlisted in this year's British Book Awards. It's another absolute cracker! rickardsisters.com/product/this...

Cover design of This Slavery graphic novel by the Rickard Sisters. 2 sisters, Hester and Rachel stand back to back in a cobbled terraced street, against a dramatic fiery orange and red sky of 1910 industrial Lancashire mills. Peeking out from behind Rachel's long skirts is the cheery white face of Jip the dog, adding a touch of hope and humour to the scene.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Solidarity✊ (illustration from the @rickardsisters.com graphic novel adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists)

Under the red banner 'Socialism, Unity is Strength, the working class socialists of 1911 lead a protest against the establishment

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Part of Barrington's 'Great Oration' from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. A state that sells off 'the necessities of life', water, energy, housing, transport, requiring its people to pay huge profits/rents to the powerful to get them back, is failing in it's basic duty.

Part of Barrington's 'Great Oration' in two panels from the Rickard Sister's graphic novel adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thank you Zack! You remind me of Barrington from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, the orator and storyteller who brought hope and a plan to Frank Owen & his workmates. Just as today, they were trapped in a a system where power, money & profit is considered more valuable than life itself.

Cover of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel adaptation by @rickardsisters.com

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Keeping the workers on the edge of poverty and the bosses financially secure is exactly how capitalism works! Twas ever thus It's all explained in here👇

Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel cover and panels from inside the book

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I won't be sat under a tree in a fancy hat but I will be celebrating with a very special dog ... It's lovely Mr Wilson's 8th birthday today! 🥳

Black and white Border Collie sat in a plush pink armchair looking at the camera. One brown eye & one blue one.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

And we're both pretty proud of our antifa daughters✊✊

Illustration of a proud working man, arms held high, fists raised, breaking the chains of capitalism (from the Rickard Sister's amazing graphic novel adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists)

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Have you seen these gems? published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social Created by my daughters the @rickardsisters.com I often wonder if having a dyslexic mother gave them an extra understanding of how graphic novels provide a gateway to enjoying reading for people like me?

Cover design of the adaptation of Tressel's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel by the Rickard Sisters. Shows signwriter Owen admiring his hand-painted sign of the title with Bert the apprentice offering him a tin mug of tea, while Crass, the foreman reads behind his penny dreadful comic

Cover design of the graphic novel adaptation of Constance Maud's No Surrender by the Rickard Sisters. Five suffragettes, both rich and poor ones with sashes saying Votes for Women, hold up a cloth banner of the book title

Cover design of the graphic novel adaptation of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's This Slavery by the Rickard Sisters. The two sisters stand on the wet cobbles at the top of a Lancashire terraced street. The dramatic background of mill chimneys are highlighted by a menacing flame-red sky. Gip, the white & tan collie looks on.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A new dawn rising full of hope #VoteGreen

A Batik painting by Buffy Robinson. Dawn rises over a broken down dry stone wall on a bleak north country moor. The pale pink light hits the tops of the dark grey stones and the batik-crackled marbled sky is bright with hope for the new day.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

In amongst all the noise, here's a bit of peace and quiet for you all www.buffyrobinson.co.uk

Back-lit Batik painting on cotton by Buffy Robinson. The sun sets golden yellow behind the San Salute in Venice. A lampstand in the foreground is silhouetted against the pink sky reflected in the lagoon.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

For all those, me included, whose timelines need a rest from heavy duty politics, here's a bit of gentle calm to rest your eyes on

A Batik painting by British Batik artist Buffy Robinson of Gloucester Old Spots scrumping rosy apples under a laden apple tree in a country orchard

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Every year Mr Wilson is traumatised by fireworks. He says, PLEASE sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... to restrict firework displays to organised events approved by the local council. 🙏🐾

Border Collie, Mr Wilson looking over the stable door

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

What a day! What a spectacular, creative and dramatic launch for This Slavery. The book is superb! The exhibition, a tribute to Ethel Carnie Holdsworth was truly inspiring. Well done to you all!

Front cover of the graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery showing the two campaigning sisters back to back against the sky, red with flames over the mills and chimneys of industrial Lancashire. Jip the little white dog in the bottom right corner, is a symbol of cheer and hope amidst the drama.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Virtually every point that @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @zarahsultana.bsky.social and @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social are making today is found illustrated in this book👇🏼 Set in 1910, it's shocking to see how so little has changed for us in 2025 rickardsisters.com/product/the-...

The front cover of the Rickard Sisters' graphic novel adaptation of Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, shows the main character, a signwriter Frank Owen admiring the title of the book he has apparently just completed. Below, the foreman Crass is sat lazily reading a penny dreadful, while a ragged young boy apprentice passes Owen a mug of tea.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So proud of these two sisters! The work they produce in collaboration is much more than they could do individually. Together they make magic happen. As their mother I may be ever so slightly biased but this new Rickard Sisters' book is an absolute cracker!

The book cover of the Rickard Sisters' new graphic novel This Slavery featuring two sisters back-to-back, supporting each other against an industrial northern mill landscape which appears to be in flames.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I do love a Fuchsia, elegant and outrageous

A Batik painting of a stem of nodding Fuchsia flowers and buds, vibrant red petals with purple centres with long pink stamens and green leaves against a white crackled batik background, with the fuchsia colours let into the cracks.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

'Blue Tit' 1994 (Batik on cotton) Nesting blue tits in my garden seem to love finding the small clumps of dog hair I've put in the bushes for them to line their nests.

A Batik painting on cotton fabric of a blue tit gripping a small branch. The bird is set against a marbled textured background created by cracking the wax in the Batik process and letting the blue/grey dye into the cracks. All my work is lit from behind, the residual wax left in the fabric gives it a translucent quality like stained glass.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

'Village Cricket' 1991 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk

A Batik painting of an English village with stone church tower behind leafy summer trees and white painted country pub creates the idyllic backdrop for a village cricket match in progress on the green. A small country road encircles the cricket pitch and rolling green hills, sheep grazed fields under a blue sky with white crackled clouds complete this nostalgic scene.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A little taste of Spring 'Primrose' lampshade 2003 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk

Hand made Batik lampshade of a bunch of yellow primroses and green leaves against a white batik-crackled background.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

'Bumble Bee' window hanging 1982 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk I saw my first bumble bee of the year arrive yesterday 👍

Black and yellow striped bumble be with white veined wings on a brown Batik crackled background in a circular window hanging

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Sadly, 'The System' is working just as it was designed to. It's all in Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' written in 1910. Have you read it? The graphic novel adaptation by @rickardsisters.bsky.social is a great place to start.

Front cover of the graphic novel adaptation of Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by the Rickard Sisters.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

'Whalley Arches' 2016 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk

A double-header steam locomotive, clouds of white smoke issuing from its funnel, crosses Whalley Arches in Lancashire, silhouetted against a blue batik-crackled sky. The red brick viaduct, its reflection in the water below, spans the River Calder (which flows into the Ribble) with fields of sheep and trees on both sides. The magnificent Whalley Arches was the view from my window for twenty years before my move to Shropshire.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

'Blue Tit' 1994 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk

A blue tit with blue cap and yellow breast grips a forked twig against a white background heavily textured with blue grey batik crackle.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

'Window Box' 1997 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk #flowers #spring

Something to cheer us all up during these grey February days. A window box of spring flowers and fresh green leaves. Red tulips, daffodils, white narcissus, purple crocus and snowdrops blooming in a brown wood box on a stone windowsill. Behind is a white painted window frame and light grey streaked window panes.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

'Lock-keeper's Garden' 1995 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk #batik #canals #waterways

The lock-keeper's house at Middlewich in Cheshire with it's beautiful colourful garden tumbling down to the water's edge stands proud under a blue-grey marbled sky. The deep lock with its white-painted balance beams and ornamental detail on its iron entrance catches the eye. In the foreground a small chunky tethered white pony peacefully munches the grass beside the towpath.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

'Zebras' Lampshade 2017 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk #batik #wildlife #africa #zebra

A herd of zebras walk and graze around this original Batik lampshade. The overlapping black and white zebras stand out strongly against the hazy blue grey African marbled sky which is crackled with the sand and orange colours of the hot dry savannah grass below.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

'Paris Café' 1992 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk

The scene is of an old run-down Paris café with a small round white metal table and folding chairs on the pavement out front. The cream walls are cracked and peeling and the café windows are covered in old net curtains. The facade is brown with a sign across the frontage reading 'Vins Café Liqueurs. On the pavement the table for two has empty chairs. All that remains is a wine bottle and a single glass. An unsuccessful romantic rendezvous? How sad.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

'Lion and Cubs' 2016 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk #batik #lion #africa #wildlife

A proud lion with lioness and cub sit under a hot batik-crackled cream and burnt orange sky. This batik was initially part of a colour test for a six panel lampshade featuring lions and cubs, made for a commission in 2016. It is now framed & back-lit and for sale in my Gallery.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

'The Flower Seller' 1998 (Batik on cotton) buffyrobinson.co.uk #batik #venice #flowers #canals

A Venetian flower seller on a barge stands amongst her produce under a red and white striped awning which shields her from the sun. The colourful boat laden with flowers and fruit is moored on a canal near a bridge, alongside a wide stone paved area. Behind are typical tall Venetian terracotta, green and yellow ochre houses going down to the water.

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Buffy @buffybatik.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

'The Banqueting House' (Batik on cotton) 1997 One of a series of commissions from the DofE of the Historic Royal Palaces which included Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace and the Tower of London. buffy@buffyrobinson.co.uk