Renaissance man: Anthony Hopkins's paintings come to the UK

When life imitates art ... Anthony Hopkins gets a foretaste of the painter's life in the title role of the 1996 film Surviving Picasso Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive Photograph: guardian.co.uk One of Hopkins's animal paintings – maybe a hint of Picasso in that primitivism? Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk And surely there are traces of Picasso in these faces ... (we're not sure about the cat) Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk A rural landscape at sunset Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk Another calm, bucolic scene Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk A portrait of a woman in garish colours Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk Veering further towards the dark side ... another of Hopkins's faintly sinister figurative portraits Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk ... and another Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk Simon Hattenstone says: 'This is more how I imagined Hopkins's work would be: restless, melancholy, haunting' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk Portrait of a woman Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk Two be-hatted figures Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk