Maybe it's because I'm regularly checking in on her profoundly candid blog, or because her work speaks to me in some uncanny way, but I've always felt a powerfully calming and comforting relation to the work of illustrator, Penelope Dullaghan. With a complete lack of pretense, Dullaghan creates softly textured images that amazingly manage to feel as if they're a piece of the artist's state of mind. She makes you feel as if she'd rather draw nothing more than bubblegum and desk lamps, and that's just fine with us.