Michigan native, Salina Kalnins, has always had an attraction to water. Her desire to recreate the beauty of the reflective and translucent qualities of lakes, oceans, and rivers led her to excel at nautically themed artwork.After Salina received her BFA from the University of Olivet in Michigan, she moved to the Florida Keys where she became an avid boater and deep-sea fisherman and part-time beachcomber. By combining her painting skills with her love of nature and the ocean, she started doing paintings for her friends and neighbors by painting their boats onto used nautical charts for fun. Her ability to recreate the highly detailed aspects of boats, lighthouses and beach scenes combined with appropriate markings on nautical charts created guides for unique marine landscape paintings.Realizing these nautical chart paintings were becoming in high demand for gifts, Salina created Art On The Water as her business and studio name. As Salina's business and online presence grew, she was increasingly commissioned by U.S. Navy service members to paint ships on to their home-port nautical charts which were given as special retirement or Change-of-Command gifts. This led to a small book being published of commissioned paintings completed for the U.S. Navy from 2007-2017. Salina’s artwork has been featured nationally in Power & Motoryacht Magazine, as well as being commissioned to create artwork for the Milwaukee, WI and Grand Rapids, MI Boat Shows. In addition to being commissioned for hundreds of paintings for U.S. Navy service men and women, her paintings have been created for private collectors involved with boating and yacht clubs all over the world.