Court O?Reilly

Court O'Reilly, also known as Hippie North (@hippienorth), is a world-renowned artist with a fiery passion for creating woodburning art. She began woodburning in 2016 and has emerged as a leader in the woodburning community for her unique nature artwork, hyper-realistic woodburnings, creative inspiration, ability to teach successful woodburning workshops, and completing hundreds of commissioned artworks globally.

Court is the author of Woodburning Workshop, a book loaded with essential information about establishing a woodburning hobby. It includes simple step-by step instructions to learn foundational woodburning techniques and skills, such a stenciling, burning lines and shading, and erasing errors. There are ten step-by step projects to apply the foundational woodburning techniques to continue to learn new and challenging skills. This book is for anyone with or without artistic experience looking to learn how to burn, or for an established woodburning artist looking for guidance to teach their own beginner woodburning workshop. Any woodburning tool can be used to follow along!

Court currently lives in Cobourg, Ontario and continues to create woodburning art.