Questions for 2014 : #4 Visual Design

Part 4 of a series of questions for 2014 …
4) Can I learn to be a visual designer?
My visual design isn’t good enough. It would be wonderful to find a designer I could work with. But I’ve never yet met someone who shared my tastes sufficiently. Either for me to want to recruit them, or for them to want to work with me.
I’ll be honest. I haven’t … er … respected … visual designers in the past the way that perhaps I should have done. But then again, perhaps I just have very strong opinions about how things should look.
So is it possible I could learn visual design? Well enough to make a decent job of some of the things I need to do? (Perhaps no more crazy than the thought that I could be a visual artist.)
Do I have the patience to try that?
Previous parts : #1, #2, #3 … next one soon.