About

Travis Kelley

I am a landscape designer, botanical artist, writer, and photographer.

My background blending theater, photography, film, and floral design shapes how I think about spatial form, framing, and sequencing. I think of landscape design in cinematic terms, where sequence derives meaning and stories unfold over time and through space. My designs feature landscape thresholds that echo the quiet moments of anticipation in a theater, while my horticultural sensibility embraces exuberant palettes within structural frameworks.

My graduate thesis investigates New England’s 14,000 legacy dams, developing design responses that reframe the human-river relationship in post-dam landscapes. The project is supported by the Moore Family Fellowship in the Making of the American Landscape through the Garden Club of America.

My spatial design skills were shaped by over a decade in the fine horticulture industry, from floristry to garden management to building and directing an urban gardens division. I’m particularly drawn to work that blends ecological approaches with sophisticated color palettes and highly ornamental planting, and to bringing that sensibility to public landscapes.

Outside of work, you’ll find me kayaking, writing, photographing, or poking around somewhere historic.

I hold a BA in Writing for Film and Television from Emerson College and an MLA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Use the Contact page to get in touch, or connect with me on Instagram.