FRF archival material.   The late Frederick Rodney Fowler went to New Guinea in 1941 arriving in Rabaul by ship just as a dramatic, but not very destructive volcanic eruption was beginning. He was an ANGAU medical orderly during WW2 and in the clean-up process afterwards.  Rod Fowler was Martin’s father, and he left Martin a significant collection of such material in his estate.

He had small pencil and watercolour sketchbooks, and a small 35mm camera with him during these years. These are a few samples from the many art studies he did at that time.