[5] Themes and characters of Gorokhova's works often inspired motifs of folklore scenes of Russian folk tales and legends.

She prefers decorative painting with a clear silhouette, local color, symbolic composition, while maintaining constructive role of drawing.

The color is decorative and "flat", often with a predominance of cool green and blue tones that permeate and unite scenic fabric and amplifying fantastic, sometimes mystical sound of painting.

Among Elena Gorokhova's major art works are the following paintings: "Girlfriends" (1958),[6] "Hoarfrost" and "Farewell" (both 1960),[7] "Bread store's woman seller" (1961),[8][9] "Winter in Pereslavl-Zalessky" (1961), "Still life" (1965), "Linda" (1973), "For the water" (1975),[10] "The morning after a Snowfall", "Ballerina", "Fox" (all 1975), "White Horse" and "Fire-bird's feather"[11] (both 1979), "Debut"[12] (1980), "Oven"[13] (1988), and others.

Paintings by Elena Gorokhova reside in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, USA, England and other countries.