Visit Our St. Augustine Gallery

Open since 1997, the gallery features Sydney's contemporary atmospheric oil landscapes, and husband Rob Mitchell's functional and decorative pottery. Located on Anastasia Island, less than one mile from downtown St. Augustine, Sydney and Rob work and live on site and are happy to offer studio tours.

Call ahead: 904-824-2414, or if you are in the area, just stop by and ring the bell. Hours are informal, but the gallery is always open for St. Augustine's popular "First Friday Artwalk," held 5 to 9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month.

The statue of an angel is poised in front of the Sydney McKenna Gallery in St. Augustine, Florida, never taking her eyes off the sky, wings at the ready. Ring the doorbell, step inside and find gallery walls lined with such scenes as the statue gazes at all day, oil paintings of cloud and sky in their most startling states. There is the shocking orange of sunset mingling with the dramatic sweeping of clouds across the sky. Then there is the majestic emerald dreamscape sunset of a tiny city perfectly tucked away between a swirl of water and sky. Don’t forget the gentle tree tops, reaching toward a more subtle sky, relaxed and taking their time in their admiration of these constant wonders, these untouchable and ever-transforming reminders of the give and take of life itself; clouds in their constant march and vigil across the only sky that the whole world entire has to share.

Meet Sydney McKenna; observer, interpreter, fine art landscape artist, eyes trained on the sky, paint brush at the ready. Her oil paintings, canvas, brush and amazing eye for catching that rare moment where the spiritual appears briefly in the everyday sky is a gift to us all who may be simply too busy or distracted to notice. Both living and working in the same location in St. Augustine, Fla., her oil paintings demonstrate the wonderland that Florida truly is. Whether beach, river, tiny inlet, lush flora and fauna, Florida has the perfect framework for the constant drama unfolding in the skies above, each and every day. Likewise, Sydney McKenna has the rare, ethereal ability to translate the astounding, the unattainable, into tangible artwork, paintings with light brush strokes and lives of their own.