About

Hi! My name’s Francis Underwater and I'm a Midlands sculptor/artist based in Leicestershire, UK.

I sculpt faces. I'm obsessed with faces. I see faces everywhere. As a child, lying in bed, I would stare at the random markings in the wood-chip wallpaper and see faces appear from the irregular patterns. This phenomenon is called pareidolia. I would see the face of David Bowie in my bowl of cereal, the Pigeon Lady from Home Alone in a discarded pile of laundry, and Hulk Hogan in my Sunday roast with his mashed potato moustache (yes, I have mashed potatoes with my roast, get over it!). Everywhere I look, there's a new face, a new expression, a new personality waiting to be brought to life in clay... and now, that’s exactly what I do. I hope you enjoy it.

Francis Underwater x