Creativity is genetic:

No one in my family was an artist. Not one! Absolutely! Totally alone. No reference points. No one to ask questions of. So stumbling around in the dark is kind of second nature now.
There's a twist in the tale. A few years ago a long lost relation came looking for my family. She was from my mothers side and decended from a man who had been sent away from the family because he fell in love with a Scotswoman whom the family didn't approve of. He went to Scotland and oddly enough all of the current generation of relatives in Scotland, not in Ireland, are artists or artistic.