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Henry Hate works in both portraiture, in an expressive and an illustrative nature, Painting friends, loved ones, ex-lovers, daliances, and people that move him to capture their likeness permanently. Some works are based on his surroundings, and childhood tell a biography of who and where the artist is. He works both in Acrylic, Oils, And Gold Gilding. A fascination with the master he works to blend a contemporary vision to old time techniques and skills..
The Ballad Of 2 Degrees 2025
Ballad of Human Attachment
This work situates male intimacy within a narrative of dependency and emotional tethering. Figures appear bound not through coercion but mutual need, reflecting attachment as both sanctuary and constraint. The painting extends Hate’s recurring theme of devotion between men, treating erotic connection as existential bond.
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 16 x 20 inches
"Hide on the promenade, etch a postcard
"How I dearly wish I was not here"
In the seaside town that they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb." Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrisey
This work situates male intimacy within a narrative of dependency and emotional tethering. Figures appear bound not through coercion but mutual need, reflecting attachment as both sanctuary and constraint. The painting extends Hate’s recurring theme of devotion between men, treating erotic connection as existential bond.
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 16 x 20 inches
"Hide on the promenade, etch a postcard
"How I dearly wish I was not here"
In the seaside town that they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb." Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrisey
Monument One 2022
Oil, 24 Kt Gold on Canvas 150 x 15o cm
Private Commission for The U=U NHS Campaign Eyes Open.
"Mother will never understand why you had to leave
But the answers you seek will never be found at home
The love that you need will never be found at home." Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
Private Commission for The U=U NHS Campaign Eyes Open.
"Mother will never understand why you had to leave
But the answers you seek will never be found at home
The love that you need will never be found at home." Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
The Ballad Of Human Attachment 2023
Oil and 24 Kt Gold on Duck Linen 150 x 150 cm
"Love comes and goes
Everybody knows
I'm alone at midnight." Alone At Midnight - Smithereens
"Love comes and goes
Everybody knows
I'm alone at midnight." Alone At Midnight - Smithereens
Friend 2023
Acrylic on Canvas 63 x 63 cm
"Friends is a word we use every day
Most the time, we use it in the wrong way
Now you can look the word up again and again
But the dictionary doesn't know the meaning of friends." _ Friends - Whodini
"Friends is a word we use every day
Most the time, we use it in the wrong way
Now you can look the word up again and again
But the dictionary doesn't know the meaning of friends." _ Friends - Whodini
The Patron Saint Of Male Sexuality 2023
A contemporary portrait framed through hagiographic symbolism, positioning the subject as secular saint of desire. Tattooed flesh replaces relic imagery, elevating lived queer sexuality into iconographic status. The work asserts masculinity and erotic presence as worthy of reverence rather than concealment.
Acrylic on Canvas
"And I'm aching from fucking too much
And I know what I do but it all points to you
Did you sell me to wanderlust?" Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues - Mclusky
Acrylic on Canvas
"And I'm aching from fucking too much
And I know what I do but it all points to you
Did you sell me to wanderlust?" Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues - Mclusky
Tanner 2025
Oxidised Oil Paint and Copper on Canvas.
"Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me, yeah." Spoonman - Soundgarden
"Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me, yeah." Spoonman - Soundgarden
The Prodigal Son 2023
(Self Portrait)
Oil On Canvas 24 kt Gold 76 x 76 cm
"They laugh at me when I run
I waste away for fun
I am my father's son
His shadow weighs a tonne." Colossus - Idles
"They laugh at me when I run
I waste away for fun
I am my father's son
His shadow weighs a tonne." Colossus - Idles
Mike 2023
A contemporary portrait of a personal accquiantence the artist met during the breakdown of his marriage. A bond formed causing the artist to capture his subject, the work in a neoexpressive form marrying the old and new into a new frame. Capturing the gentleman as he doesn in a series of portraits each one differing from the next.
Acrylic On Canvas
"I'll give you fish
I'll give you candy
I'll give you everything I have in my hand." Give Me Back My Man - B52's
Acrylic On Canvas
"I'll give you fish
I'll give you candy
I'll give you everything I have in my hand." Give Me Back My Man - B52's
Scott 2023
Acrylic, Glitter, Pigment
On Canvas 63 x 63 cm
"I was at the Jabberjaw
The cutest boy I ever saw
He was standing behind me
He was such a dream." Minneapolis - That Dog
On Canvas 63 x 63 cm
"I was at the Jabberjaw
The cutest boy I ever saw
He was standing behind me
He was such a dream." Minneapolis - That Dog
Afterglow (Piotrek) 2023
A portrait of post-intimate stillness, where bodily presence dissolves into light and atmosphere. Rather than depicting act, the work holds the emotional residue of encounter. The painting extends Hate’s interest in the temporal aftermath of intimacy — sexuality as memory, warmth and trace.
Oil On Canvas Gold Pigment
"When he fuck me good I take his ass to red Lobster." Formation - Beyonce
Oil On Canvas Gold Pigment
"When he fuck me good I take his ass to red Lobster." Formation - Beyonce
Trick 2023
An Acrylic portrait of a hustler the artist met on one of his excursions out within the city. Straight out of being incarcerated. harking to the work of David Hurles. Henry stroke up a cobversation and the work and photos were creaated.
Acrylic on Canvas 63 x 63 cm
"I once got busy in a burger King bathroom!" The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
Acrylic on Canvas 63 x 63 cm
"I once got busy in a burger King bathroom!" The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
Ma$ter 2023
These paired works examine negotiated power within erotic exchange. Rather than fetish spectacle, figures appear contemplative and psychologically present, emphasising relational dynamics over role stereotype. The paintings position BDSM as structured intimacy and consensual choreography of trust.
Oil On Canvas 76 x 76 cm
"|'m on the town, I'll give you hell, if you don't put me in my cell.
I may be soft, I made the top, I like my cabaret non-stop. It may be erotic, it may be ecstatic
With it down on your floor or in your attic." Memorabillia - Soft Cell
Oil On Canvas 76 x 76 cm
"|'m on the town, I'll give you hell, if you don't put me in my cell.
I may be soft, I made the top, I like my cabaret non-stop. It may be erotic, it may be ecstatic
With it down on your floor or in your attic." Memorabillia - Soft Cell
Nightengale 2023 (Andy)
This painting is of a personal friend and colleague Andy. Captured after a deep and personal talk the artist asked the model to pose and capturing the sitter in a expressive brish strokes in a moment of true introspection. Marrying the classic with the contemporary.
Woof 2023
Acrylic On Canvas
"Sometimes it tries to kid me
That it's just a teddy bear
And even somehow manage to vanish in the air
And that is when I must beware of the beast in me." The Best In Me - Johnny Cash
"Sometimes it tries to kid me
That it's just a teddy bear
And even somehow manage to vanish in the air
And that is when I must beware of the beast in me." The Best In Me - Johnny Cash
Alladin Sane 2024
Henry Hate’s Alladin Sane (2024) fuses glam-era symbolism with contemporary male portraiture, exploring identity, persona and queer figuration in paint.
Acrylic, Oxidized Paint and Copper On Reclaimed Cardboard
"And suddenly I find myself
Listening to a man I've never known before
Telling me about the sea
All his love, till eternity." The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Kate Bush
Acrylic, Oxidized Paint and Copper On Reclaimed Cardboard
"And suddenly I find myself
Listening to a man I've never known before
Telling me about the sea
All his love, till eternity." The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Kate Bush
Damien 2024
Oxidised Acrylic Paint on Corrugated Cardbord
"And I feel diseased, I'm down on my knees
And I need forgiveness, someone to bear witness
To the goodness within, beneath the sin." To Have And To Hold - Depeche Mode
"And I feel diseased, I'm down on my knees
And I need forgiveness, someone to bear witness
To the goodness within, beneath the sin." To Have And To Hold - Depeche Mode
Les Jolies Damoiselles De La Lune 2025
Acryliic On Canvas, Oil Pastel, Pigments
"Kid, my only kid
You look so small, you've gone so quiet
I know you know
What I'm about, I won't deny it." Kid - Pretenders
"Kid, my only kid
You look so small, you've gone so quiet
I know you know
What I'm about, I won't deny it." Kid - Pretenders
Tia De Los Muertos 2025
Mixed Media Acrylic On Canvas
"Change the lines that were said before
We're all dreamers - we're all whores
Discarded stars
Like worn out cars." This Town - Go-Go's
"Change the lines that were said before
We're all dreamers - we're all whores
Discarded stars
Like worn out cars." This Town - Go-Go's
Blame It On Rio 2024
Acrylic On Canvas 76 x 76 cm
"She'll come, she'll go
She'll lay belief on you
Skin sweet with musky oil
The lady from another grinning soul." Lady Grinning Soul - David Bowie
"She'll come, she'll go
She'll lay belief on you
Skin sweet with musky oil
The lady from another grinning soul." Lady Grinning Soul - David Bowie
Holy Shit! 2024
Acrylic On Canvas
"Now
You set me straight
You told me things
That erase my slate
I'll do what you say
As long as you feel
That I can be had
Without sex appeal. Set Me Straight - Melvins
"Now
You set me straight
You told me things
That erase my slate
I'll do what you say
As long as you feel
That I can be had
Without sex appeal. Set Me Straight - Melvins
Sunset People 2025
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
"Rainbow girl, whiskey man
Spotting every star they can
On sunset, on sunset
Rock an' roll every night
Underneath them neon signs
On sunset, on sunset.' Sunset People - Donna Summer
"Rainbow girl, whiskey man
Spotting every star they can
On sunset, on sunset
Rock an' roll every night
Underneath them neon signs
On sunset, on sunset.' Sunset People - Donna Summer
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