Elise Macdonald is an illustrator based in South Africa who is inspired by what we call the “magical realism” to produce paintings and narrative elements that invite the viewer to enter in an imaginary world. Each feminine, animal (often birds) or child protagonist is painted with realism in a fantastical and very oneiric situation, referring to freedom, innocence, childhood and beauty. According to her and Da Vinci, her paintings are never finished but “abandoned”.