Although Sýkora bases his works on concrete motifs and everyday activities, his images are psychologically dense, permeated with surprising details and an ambivalent tension between calm and unease. While the countryside and suburban landscapes have long served as the dominant backdrop for the artist’s paintings, their underlying mood has evolved over time.
His earlier works were characterized by melancholy, loneliness, uprootedness, and a sense of time standing still, all of which were heightened by a muted color palette and a flattened conception of space. In recent years, his work has shifted toward more mundane scenes bordering on genre painting, which are clearly set in the present. The paintings have acquired richer colors, a naive stylization, and a deeper spatial composition. Sýkora populates his canvases with figures engaged in typical, aimless, everyday activities such as leisurely strolls in the countryside, walking the dog, or simply killing time. These do not come across as depressing pursuits but rather as contemplative acts, like a melancholic form of self-fulfillment, which unfolds inconspicuously, without pathos, and often with hints of subtle humor. The figures in Sýkora’s current paintings can thus be understood as the unsophisticated descendants of his earlier flaneurs, Mácha-esque bandits, and vagabonds. 
Uprootedness and life on the margins have gradually given way to the “small mysticism” of a pensive experience of the everyday.