Lisa Sorrell

Lisa Sorrell is a custom cowboy bootmaker in Oklahoma. She works alone in her shop creating cowboy boots from flat pieces of leather and the customer's measurements. She specializes in creating intricate inlaid and overlaid designs and works primarily with exotics such as Kangaroo, Ostrich, Alligato…

My work offers fresh and challenging ways to examine the art of the cowboy boot within the context of heritage and tradition. I invite viewers to contemplate their own expectations of both art and cowboy boots by pushing the boundaries of each in a perfect marriage of the two. Within my work I creat…

Lisa Sorrell was raised in southwest Missouri in a conservative little church where the women all wore long hair and long dresses. Her mother began teaching her to sew when she was 12 and by age 15 she was making those dresses for ladies in her church. Within a few years she was sewing for the commu…