The phrase "creative vein" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to someone's natural ability or talent in creative pursuits. Example: She inherited her mother's creative vein and pursued a successful career in graphic design.
They took these jobs seriously, not wanting to leave a moment of the adventure unrecorded, and Ms. Lowitz discovered a deep creative vein while snapping hundreds of evocative and dreamy black and whites.
And if you train it with Chopin, it produces… well, not quite Chopin, but piano in a logical, one might even be tempted to say creative vein.
And somehow, in working that episode, we sort of found a new creative vein.
Astrophysicists, designers, teachers, doctors, engineers, and all others with creative veins must form integrated teams and start designing around the big issues we face.
Then it seemed as though he had exhausted a particular vein of creative inquiry.
After the births of her two sons, Ms. Slovin worked in politics and government and went on to direct the New York City CETA Artists Project, a publicly financed employment program for creative artists in the vein of the W.P.A.
In the same vein of creative river crossings in place of strictly utilitarian structures, a French architecture firm has proposed a trampoline bridge located near the existing Pont de Bir-Hakeim.
"It's cool when people can tap into new veins of creative energy or expand their fields of vision but there are so many different ways to do that.
The creative approach is in the vein known on Madison Avenue by the term "product as hero," which is common when bringing out a new product.
Mr. Herzog said he planned to take some time off before deciding his next career move, which he said, "could be new-media or could be old- media, but I hope will be in the vein of the creative work I've done at Comedy Central and Fox".
(MindRDR, to be clear, is not a paid project and was not developed for any client; rather it's in the vein of other London-based creative agencies like UsTwo, where employees are encouraged to work on creative projects that are completely outside of their day-to-day client work).
