The artist mainly worked in the technique of woodcut, combining “Ukrainian figurative and expressive principles with the assimilation of the experience of 20th-century European printmaking”. She studied Ukrainian folk art, in particular the ornamentation of embroidery, carpets, and ceramics, and collected artistic artifacts.

Under pressure from the communist regime, including in the sphere of art, she was forced to add depictions of the “happy life” of the builders of a “bright future” to her works.

Unlike many students of Novakivskyi’s Art School, Stefaniia Hebus-Baranetska did not emigrate to the West but remained to educate the younger generation. She taught at the Vocational Art School and instructed students of the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts) in drawing, graphics, and typography. In retirement, she continued to work with schoolchildren.

Her works were repeatedly presented at republican and All-Union exhibitions and were shown in Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Moscow, Leningrad, Kursk, Tallinn, and Warsaw. Today, her works are preserved in museums in Ukraine and abroad.