An individually handmade contemporary glass sailing boat, available in a choice of small or medium size.
Sweeping bands of red, golden yellow, fresh green, ocean blue and soft violet flow diagonally across the translucent sail. During firing, the colours gently soften and blend where they meet, creating the appearance of a rainbow carried across the glass by a sea breeze.
Bright and uplifting without being overpowering, Rainbow Breeze brings a beautiful sweep of colour to a shelf, mantelpiece or windowsill. Display it alone or combine different sizes to create your own miniature regatta.
Each fused-glass sail rests on a handmade clear-glass base, shaped to suggest a boat’s hull and finished with a polished chrome fitting.
PLEASE SELECT YOUR SIZE
Small: approximately 12 cm high
Medium: approximately 15 cm high
The price shown is for one complete glass sailing boat in your selected size.
Photographs showing two boats are included to illustrate the difference in scale. The boats are sold individually and are not supplied as a pair.
Each Rainbow Breeze boat is individually handmade. The precise movement, intensity and arrangement of the colours will vary slightly from one sail to another, while retaining the same rainbow palette and overall character. These natural variations ensure that every boat is unique.
The sail separates from its stand for secure, compact delivery and is easily reassembled on arrival.
Designed and handmade by Jan Simpson in her West Sussex studio.
THE STORY BEHIND THE REGATTA COLLECTION
The Regatta Collection grew from a lifetime spent around sailboats and the sea. Some of my earliest and strongest memories are connected with water, and sailing has remained a thread running through my life.
More recently, watching the racing from Felpham Beach and returning to New Zealand brought many of those memories back to the surface. While in Auckland during the Covid period, I was fortunate to attend the 36th America’s Cup. We travelled out by boat to the very edge of the racecourse, close enough to experience the extraordinary scale, speed and movement of the yachts as they passed. It was an unforgettable reminder of the power and elegance of a sail carried by the wind.
These glass boats are not intended as precise models. They are small responses to remembered sails, racing boats, shifting horizons and light moving across open water.
Each boat carries a fragment of those experiences: New Zealand waters, sailing in Hong Kong, the racing off Felpham and the enduring feeling of being at home near the sea.
DISPLAY AND CONSTRUCTION
The fused-glass sail rests on its own handmade clear-glass base, shaped to suggest a boat’s hull and finished with a polished chrome fitting.
Display it individually on a shelf, mantelpiece or windowsill, or place it alongside other boats from the collection to create your own regatta. Near natural light, the subtle tonal variations and striations within the blue glass become more visible.
The glass sail measures approximately 12 cm high.
As every component is individually handmade, measurements, colour distribution and markings may vary slightly from the photographs.
The sail separates from its stand for secure, compact delivery and is easily reassembled on arrival.
Designed and handmade by Jan Simpson in her West Sussex studio.
This listing is for one boat. Select the required quantity when ordering.
