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Through her school years, she continued to draw and paint to develop her artistic skills.  In her early twenties she went to New Zealand on vacation, a decision that would lead her to an adventure that would last 18 years and take her to places of which she had only dreamed.  From New Zealand she went to Australia, where she lived for two years and met her French husband, Daniel.  They lived in New Caledonia for two years waiting for their sailboat to be built in France.

When it was finished, they went to France to start the voyage of a lifetime: the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and all the way down to the bottom of the South Pacific and every country in between.  She was able to see and experience firsthand the wildlife she loved.

After five years of sailing, they went back to New Caledonia and she started seriously working on her art.  After being out of the USA for 18 years, she is back living in the same mountains of her childhood and is continuing her work.

She has studied with some of the best known wildlife artists in the world, such as Carl Brenders, Richard Sloan, Rod Frederick, Terry Isaac, Robert Bateman and John Seerey-Lester.  They have given her a whole new outlook on art and her own work, which can be found in New Caledonia, Australia, Europe and the USA.  She has worked in colour pencils, pastels and gouache but now she works exclusively in acrylic.  She now travels around the world in search of her subjects, researching and studying the mammals and birds she so loves, trying to capture a little moment in their lives.  Her subjects come from North America, Europe, Australia, Africa and the South Pacific.

Wildlife artist Susan Labouri shows in the top wildlife show in the USA and has been selected for some of the top international competitions.  Her work can also be found in some museums and she is now being represented in Europe.