goss was a member of the toronto camera club and an active member of the pictorialist movement. he explored customary pictorialist subject matter, such as portraits and landscapes, and experimented with the characteristic soft-focus style of pictorialism. like others associated with the movement, goss aimed to produce aesthetically pleasing images and viewed his artistic practice as a form of personal expression. he organized exhibitions of art photography and won awards for his own photographs, which were shown at exhibitions in canada and england.