Laurel Briggs Robinson is a Yorta Yorta-Wurunjeri woman born at Mooroopna Victoria. She grew up in Shepparton where she attended school to her teenage years. She then went to Melbourne and worked as a telephonist, then to Sydney NSW and work for the Aboriginal medical service for 40 years . She returned to Shepparton and later, joining Kaiela Arts, she realised that she could express her "hidden feelings" in art as well as the memories of her childhood. She says. " I do love working with the other elders and exchanging stories. I think its important , we pass our stories onto the younger generations." This painting is of the platypus -" also called duckling a small amphibious Australian mammal noted for its odd combination of primitive features, and special adaptations. They are common in the waterways of Eastern Australia they generally feed on bottom dwelling invertebrate, also occasional cray fish and insects. This shy creature forages most actively from dusk to dawn sheltering during the day in burrows."