Surrounded by her own works as company, Suzy paints in her garden studio. She attends all of the Island festivals, such as the Canoe Festival (in which she took part), the Merrie Monarch, the Taro Festival, the Tahiti Fete, here on Maui and in Hilo. Also she has taken trips to the South Pacific, such as to the Cook Islands and to Fiji, always gathering material for her art. She is drawn to the figures she paints and the portraits in turn relate to the viewer as Suzy captures the beauty and simplicity of the local lifestyle. The artist may depict the kava ceremony or the hula, showing how dedicated Hawaiians are to their culture and to its preservation. Suzy remarked that "there is more of a militance about their wanting to preserve their culture, than in other Polynesian countries and therefore they work harder at it. For instance, a young man, Keomoku Kapu trains his peers in the ways of Hawaiian protocol."