Susun is a renown fine artist, acrylic painter, and lover of the ocean, science, and art history. 

Originally, Susun was a signpainter by trade lettering race cars, painting gold leaf windows, and Silicon Valley murals. She made a name for herself in San Jose and would eventually land on the cover of Signcraft magazine, a national trade publication in 1986.

With her artistic expertise, she worked as a consultant for the Simic Gallery in Carmel. Simultaneously, she would open her own Gallery, Signshop, and Artschool in Santa Cruz, California in 1987. Fine artists and students alike from the Bay Area came to the gallery for representation and art education. The artschool-signshop-gallery would eventually blossom into Susun Gallery Artschool - a place to build a career in fine art.  

Susun Gallery Artschool with its 200 paintings hung floor to ceiling was awarded 'Best Gallery in Santa Cruz' by Good Times Magazine and the Midcounty Post in 1992 while having over 250 students enrolled in fine art education. 

In 2013 she would move to Hawaii to start Artschool on the Beach and teach students under the umbrella of the Department of Education in public schools on the Big Island. She taught at Kahakai School where her fourth grade art students would create "The Monk Seal Mural" which is a permenant installation at NOAA's Mokupapapapa Discovery Center in Hilo.  

She currently resides at her home studio in Hilo teaching children and building community.