I think my grandmother is the family member with the greatest source of encouragement for my creativity. I don't remember any defining moment or have the feeling it's directly linked, but whenever I visited her it was an art party. She have herself been doing art all her life, drawing, painting with oils, watercolour, acryllics, gouache, making Fimo clay jewelery, flower arrangements, poetry, photography etc. etc. I think she has pretty much done everything at some point. So when I was there I tried out all these things also, and she would always hang up me and my brother's drawings (They are still there btw, she hasn't changed them since I was ten, I'm 25 now).