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Auckland · Custom commissions and fine finishes

A trained artist’s hand, for the details that matter most.

Hand-painted commissions and the careful, precise work most trades rush. Made slowly, by hand, in the rooms you live with every day.

Two kinds of work

What Empressive is for.

Custom hand-painted feature wall

Custom Commissions

Hand-painted murals, feature walls, and commissioned pieces made for one room and one family. A decade of portrait and fine-art training, brought to the surfaces you live with. This is the signature, the work only Emma’s hand makes.

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Fine finish detail, hand-applied

Fine Finishes

The work that has to be exact. Furniture restoration, wall panelling, plaster craft, historic wooden panel detailing, and the small precise repairs that ask for patience and a steady hand. The everyday craft homes come to depend on.

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A surface can be coated by anyone. The parts of a home people remember are made by hand, slowly, by someone who cares how they turn out.

Emma Jayne
Emma’s reach

More hands when the work calls for it.

Emma’s reach goes further than her own two hands. When a job needs a full team, she calls in trusted hands, Jess’s crew among them, to fill out the work without losing the care it deserves.

Founding cohort A founding member of the Odyssey network, a small group of trades setting a new standard for craft, care, and the homes Auckland trusts them with.
Commissions and finishes

Every piece begins with a conversation.

Tell Emma about the room and what you have in mind. She will come back with a clear plan for the work.

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