![CMYK Splat! 1](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20220822-Rob-Hilken-007.png?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
CMYK Splat 3
92 x 92cm
2024
Acrylic ink and spray paint on canvas.
Splat! is a series of playful paintings that explore the tension between the rigid structure of a pattern with the chaotic randomness of a liquid splash.
![Rob Hilken - CMYK Splat-1](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rob-Hilken-CMYK-Splat-1.jpg?resize=1080%2C1080&ssl=1)
![Rob Hilken - CMYK Splat-2](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rob-Hilken-CMYK-Splat-2.jpg?resize=1080%2C1080&ssl=1)
CMYK Splat 1 & CMYK Splat 2
30 x 30cm
2024
Acrylic ink and spray paint on canvas.
![A Rob Hilken Painting (1 of 6)](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Rob-Hilken-Painting-1-of-6.jpg?resize=1080%2C806&ssl=1)
Splat! in Pink on Green
74 x54cm
2023
Acrylic polymer and spray paint on canvas with custom painted tray frame and complimentary coloured splines.
![A Rob Hilken Painting (2 of 6)](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Rob-Hilken-Painting-2-of-6.jpg?resize=1080%2C1458&ssl=1)
Splat! in Green on Blue
54 x74cm
2023
Acrylic polymer and spray paint on canvas with custom painted tray frame and complimentary coloured splines.
![A Rob Hilken Painting (5 of 6)](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Rob-Hilken-Painting-5-of-6.jpg?resize=1080%2C1452&ssl=1)
Disruption II
30 x 40cm
2022
Spray paint on canvas
‘Disruption’ paintings feature a smaller crop of isometric pattern. They have one area of the pattern painted with a highly fluorescent colour which causes a disruptive optical illusion that is unsettling to the eye.
![A Rob Hilken Painting (6 of 6)](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Rob-Hilken-Painting-6-of-6.jpg?resize=1080%2C1080&ssl=1)
Disruption I
30 x 30cm
2022
Spray paint on canvas
![A Rob Hilken Painting (4 of 6)](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Rob-Hilken-Painting-4-of-6.jpg?resize=1080%2C1080&ssl=1)
Splat! I
54 x74cm
2022
Acrylic polymer on canvas.
![20220822 Rob Hilken 007](https://i0.wp.com/www.robhilken.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220822-Rob-Hilken-007-scaled.jpg?resize=1080%2C720&ssl=1)
Rollover week (triptych)
3 x 92cm x 92cm
2022
Acrylic polymer on canvas
The number 7 is symbolic for many world religions: seven days of creation, seven chakras, seven deadly sins, seven virtues, seven doors to hell, seven steps taken by Buddha etc. It is also seen as a lucky number and so is associated with gambling and casinos.
These paintings were shown in my solo exhibition ‘It Could be You‘.