 After being awarded a scholarship Meninsky was able to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1912–13.In 1913 he worked for Edward Gordon Craig at his theatre school in Florence, later returning to teach at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where he taught painting and drawing from 1913 until 1940.During World War I, Meninsky served in the Royal Fusiliers, fighting with General Edmund Allenby in Palestine.