LISA SORRELL
Guthrie, OK
customboots.net
IG: sorrellcustomboots
Lisa Sorrell is an award-winning artist working in the medium of leather. She makes shoes, cowboy boots, and leather art pieces in her shop in Oklahoma, working from flat pieces of leather and the client’s measurements, and using hand tools and vintage machinery. She maintains a portfolio of original designs and is well-known in the boot-making world for her design skills. She speaks, teaches, and writes; her book “The Art of Leather Inlay and Overlay” is a textbook on the topic of creating art with leather. She enjoys speaking about cowboy boots and cowboy boot making and also teaches and writes on the topic of cowboy boots, footwear, and creating art with leather.
Wild and Blue Boots
Kangaroo and American alligator leather, with floral/butterfly design in rough-out kangaroo
2015
Kansas City Star Boots
Kangaroo and ostrich leather, with overlay top band and multi-row stitching, turquoise ostrich foot with wingtip
Someday When Things Are Good
Calf and alligator, inlaid and stitched shoes with alligator foot
2022
The footwear in the exhibition is all bespoke – and therefore custom-made for the customer. If available, we have provided contact information for you to learn more about how this process works with each of the artists.