“Shafted” - Dan and Des on board the Halva Maan, St.Antoni Bay, Ibiza - 2011

Daniel Scott, MA

Artist | Set Designer | Education and Business Consultant

Founder: MyCORE Systems LTD

Daniel has over thirty years’ experience working across some of the worlds leading schools, brands and theatres. His work sits at the intersection of art and design, education and phycology, exploring relationships between seeing, thinking and making.

Across countless classrooms, studios, theatres and workshops, Daniel’s practice begins with a simple belief: that creativity is not an ornament to learning, but one of its deepest structures, vital for developing the mind and its intellectually capacity throughout ones life. He is interested in what happens when people are invited to look more carefully — at materials, spaces, problems, systems and one another — and how thoughtful questioning can transform the way ideas take form and, may possibly, lead to a more balanced life.

As Head of Art at Stowe School, Daniel led a highly successful and innovative team, in one of the UKs most prestigious Art departments. Together they delivered, year on year, outstanding results through rigorous technical excellence and thematically relevant and critically assessed work. Multiple students were recognised for their exceptional portfolio presentations which were used by OCR as their top level exemplars. These early innovations into digital sketchbooks is now largely standard across the sector.

The true success was, for Daniel, not the A*’s but how many went on to study art at university and beyond. From The Slade to the Architectural Association, across fine art, architecture, interior design and theatre design, 99% were offered their 1st place option over a 6yr tenure.

He has held academic roles at Marlborough College Malaysia, The British School of Milan, Wellington College Bangkok and lecturing posts at The Istituto Europeo di Design, Barcelona. From September 2026 he will work selectively with private students by appointment. (Please contact for more details).

Daniel’s own practice is currently exploring the shared states across Geology, Mathematics, fragility and memory. Working with cast ice, he creates temporary sculptural forms that soften, change and disappear — quiet studies of pressure, transformation and what remains.

In 2017, he gained is Masters in Set Design at the Bristol Old Vic (UWE) and has worked with, amongst others, directors and producers from The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Opera House and The Bristol Old Vic. Theatre continues to shape his understanding of space, rhythm, narrative and the way people inhabit ideas.

He is now extending this cross-disciplinary practice into creative consultancy, organisational learning and research into how people perceive, imagine, collaborate and make meaning. In an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence and automated answers, Daniel’s work focuses on the human capacities that remain essential: attention, judgement, imagination, trust, ethical questioning and the courage to work with uncertainty. His workshops draw on art, theatre, design, education and systems thinking to help schools, cultural organisations, businesses and leadership teams think more clearly and creatively.

He is the founder of MyCore Systems Limited, launching Autumn, 2026.

Please contact for details.