She was awarded the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship in 2009, after her work was transformed around her experience with breast cancer as the first cryoablation patient in the United States.
While there, she was the political cartoonist and illustrator OSU's Vietnam-era underground anti-war newspaper, The Scab Sheet 10 cents for the Truth.
[6] In 2014, Ross-Paul, her husband, and her oncologist, Peter Littrup, published They're Mine and I'm Keeping Them through the self-publishing service CreateSpace, an account of her experience with breast cancer and the first cryoablation patient in the United States.
[11][5] Her style was inspired by Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, and Morris Graves,[5] and has been compared to Claude Monet and Caspar David Friedrich by 1859 Oregon's Magazine.
[5] Twelve of Ross-Paul's paintings were purchased by the Oregon Legislative Assembly in One Percent for Art Collection, the first law of its kind that dedicates tax dollars to acquiring works from the state's most well-known artists.