Artist Bruce Munro

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The forthcoming Field of Light display in Salcombe will see Bruce Munro return to his childhood haven and the place that kindled his love of art. He tells Richard Torne how switching from the easel to LEDs also transformed his life as an artist.

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00:00So we're looking over the Sulcombe Estuary, looking to the other side and there are three

00:08fields just below the village of East Portlemouth and we are creating an installation of 20,000

00:19fibre optic stems. It's an installation called Field of Light which was first created

00:25in 2003, in fact it was first thought of in 1992, inspired by my journeys in Australian

00:34outback. Since then it's travelled all around the world and this latest iteration is to

00:40create an installation to commemorate or celebrate the 200th anniversary of the RNLI and hopefully

00:49raise some much needed funds for the charity and hopefully people will have a lovely time

00:58coming down to Sulcombe, staying here and enjoy the lights.

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