In his garden in St-Anastasie, a small village lost in the forests of the upper Var, Serge Plagnol has, as usual, immersed himself in nature.

Rather than creating large works, he created for Area a series of miniature works on wood.
For Serge Plagnol, "Small is big" means that a work reduced by its format can contain an immense space as soon as the gaze abandons itself to it.

His painting is instantaneous, it does not represent, it makes present what surrounds it. Once the color is applied he comes back with a gouge to inscribe sharp lines in the wood sometimes he sticks a small branch, a twig, a pebble.

These works are in the continuity of those he has always produced, they question the changing light on nature through what Bernard Noël called "the sign Plagnol", a raging and tender way of inscribing on his support what belongs only to him and which you both for a vision and for an affirmation.

Phillipe Dagen (Le Monde) "The painting, whatever the image it evokes, essentially gives one the opportunity to read the story of its birth, from stage to stage, from retouch to retouch, and again and again.

Lydia Harambourg (la Gazette) "Plagnol is in the effusion, in the carnal flavor. He reaches a strange alchemy where the materialistic thrusts, nourished by the pigments he makes and whose secrets he knows all about, combine with the vibrating surfaces to capture the light."

Alin Avila "He shows us nothing identifiable, but leads us towards what, taking shape, leads us on the path that says his name."

Bernard Noël "by the effect of its dominant color, blue, each of his works communicates the impression of an original erasure that gave rise to his painting."

Olivier Céna (Télérama) "What could I say more beautifully about Serge Plagnol's painting if not that it is the bearer of life, if not that it is life itself".