sentences:  Meadows was born in Norwich, and educated at the City of Norwich School, After briefly training as an accountant in 1931, he attended Norwich School of Art and then in 1936 became Henry Moore's first assistant at his studio in Kent.He participated in the first Surrealist exhibition in London in 1936.He lived in Chalk Farm from 1937, assisting Moore in his studio at Hampstead, and studied at the Royal College of Art (although his first application was rejected, due to his association with Moore) and at the Courtauld Institute.