Artist in oil, pen and ink and pencil, and teacher, born in Porlock, Somerset. He came from a family with artistic interests, several members depicted by Augustus John, by whom Salaman had a fine collection of drawings. Salaman studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks, 1928–31, under Albert Rutherston at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, 1930–1, then in 1933–4 in Paris at Académie Ranson. He taught at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and at Chelsea for about 30 years from the late 1940s and for a period at Royal Academy Schools from 1964. South London Art Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum hold his work. Salaman was granted a Civil List Pension for services to art in 1977, two years after a retrospective at the Morley Gallery.