In her paintings, Susan Pitjara Hunter symbolizes all that is associated with Awely - the decorated torsos of the women the women's ceremonial sites or dreaming places where women are gathered and the other representations of the ceremony – digging and music sticks, coolamons and feather adornments.

Susan sketches her entire work in pencil before begins applying acrylic paint. She then applies her paint with the finely sharpened end of a stick. The result is a myriad of expertly executed dots forming an abstract whole. She takes months to complete her larger more complex works.