This week on Cosimo Studio Tours, we head down to James Robert Morrison’s studio in southeast London. Born in Elgin, Scotland, James is an artist whose artwork stems from personal experience. 

The artist aims to reflect on the pivotal experience of discovering an individual's sexuality and the journey that they must take when it comes to understanding, accepting, and valuing it. 

His pencil and cigarette paper, or ‘Fag Series’, entitled ‘There's Never More Than a Fag Paper Between Them’, engages directly with the subject matter through which he depicts and captures LGBTQ plus couples and intimate yet tender moments. 

In this interview, we speak all about his process, his delicate drawn creations, representation, queer artistic perspective, working in the commercial gallery and government art sectors, as well as how emerging artists can build and shape their professional careers.