Every Daemon Rowanchilde design is a personal emblem or soulprint of an individual’s inner magnificence. |
![]() Daemon is also an accomplished painter, drawing inspiration from Middle Eastern and Indian designs, as well as sacred architectures, ornamentation and geometry in his paintings and tattoo designs. His artistic influences include Van Gogh, M.C. Escher, Buckminster Fuller, Andrew Goldsworthy, Chuck Close, Jay Bell Redbird, Halina Stopyra and sculptor Jon Anderson. |
BACKSTORYIn 1986, when Daemon was a Fine Art student at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD) in Toronto, his fascination with the portrayal of the human body in various media eventually led him to pursue a final-year independent study project on tattooing as art and design for the body. His project attracted the attention of local media who covered the story because it was the first time that a recognized art institute acknowledged tattooing as a legitimate art form. Daemon’s practice began as an exploration of the contribution of tattooing to the aesthetics of the human body in motion. With time, Daemon became increasingly aware of the spiritual dimensions of permanent body design and its potential to affect the human energy field. This led to his exploration and experimentation with the immediate environment (setting) where his clients were being tattooed and its effect on the client’s mindset. In the early ’90s, Daemon began to perceive parallels between his role as a tattoo artist and that of a spiritual midwife. Daemon was able to perceive his transpersonal tattooing as an energetic interpretation of a client’s unique, personal energy field with patterns reflecting Nature’s beautiful art forms, including sacred geometry, as well as the sacred art of ancient cultures, tribal and shamanistic cultures. The individual shapes of the patterns have an effect on the energy of the tattoo. Daemon called his signature style, Daemonic Energy Wave, which has since evolved into the present variations: Daemonic Tribal, Daemonic Fusion, Daemonic Japanese and Spiral Weaves. |