If you’re visiting somewhere extraordinary such as Göbekli Tepe, don’t snap away on your phone — take a sketchbook. Jason Goodwin explains why.
‘I would like,’ I said, ‘to learn how to draw. I only have 10 days.’
The walls of John Meaker’s Abbotsbury studio in Dorset are lined 20ft high with oils and charcoal sketches and a number of empty easels stand around on the floor. Mr Meaker didn’t bat an eyelid, until I told him I was planning to revisit…