In about 1815 Colman moved from
Yeovil to Bristol, where he lived until around 1840. He worked as a portrait painter and drawing-master in the city, as well as painting minutely detailed Romantic, Biblical and
genre scenes. He was loosely associated with the grouping of artists known as the
Bristol School which flourished from the
Regency era onwards but had little involvement, although his work nonetheless reflects the
genre paintings of
Edward Villiers Rippingille and
Edward Bird. He was a religious
Nonconformist who worshipped at the Castle Green Independent Chapel and the Zion Chapel in Bedminster, and his faith was central to his work; His apocalyptic paintings have drawn comparisons to those of
John Martin. He signed works as
Colman and alternatively
Coleman. ==Gallery==