An award winning watercolorist, Ross paints with deep appreciation, the rural beauty that surrounds her. Her subject "that particular view, that special light" ignites her imagination. Love of the environment and history keep her looking for views that enrich the eye and the soul. Her subjects include gentle lakes, quiet woodlands, historic farms and scenes that depict a true love of nature. She distinctly captures their beauty with her brush before they are gone forever. Presently, Ross conducts year-round workshops in watercolor.

Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Academy, The Slamagundi Club, The Trotter Museum, Monmouth Museum, Waterloo Village and The Barn Galleries. She is represented by The Cardinal Art Gallery of Vernon, New Jersey and The Sugar Loaf Guild of Sugar Loaf, New York. The artist, has had several one-woman shows. Her paintings may be found in private collections and are included in various public and corporate collections throughout the United States. Ross has been selected as an official US Coast Guard artist, thus expanding her work to include more seascapes. Ross' free-flowing watercolors have enabled her to convey the profound feeling she has for the moods and seasons of her surrounding environment. With each work, she shares her own special memories and personal experiences that will become more valuable with time.

Joan Ross, an accomplished artist, has enjoyed a widely diversified career as a Research Chemist at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, and an educator, both teacher and vice principal. Born in New York, she received a BS degree from St. Joseph's College and has done post-graduate work at St. Elizabeth's College in Convent Station.

She has served on juries of awards and selection and demonstrated for art organizations in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.