‘Rock’ is a word used to describe a mineral material but also used to describe someone you rely on. I have taken this idea and thought about sedimentary rocks and their layers relating to the strong generations in my family and how each person is important in the structure of a family. I chose Staithes, as my grandparents met there in 1948, to inform my visual research, collecting images which later developed into each jewellery piece. My grandparents are the cornerstone or ‘rock’ to my family and I.