Jennifer Hawkins is the featured artist at MCE for January. Submitted

Maricopa artist Jennifer Hawkins is the January exhibitor for Maricopa Center for Entrepreneurship’s monthly Art & Entrepreneur series.

An artist’s reception is planned for Jan. 6 at 6 p.m.

Hawkins says she has been an artist all her life. She has lived in Maricopa for over 10years. Her favorite things in life are traveling, photography, art and color.

She paints a lot of the photographs she takes. She is mainly an acrylic artist on canvas but has worked with almost every painting and pencil media. She loves impressionist art, but usually has an abstract painting that she is painting on the side at the same time. She seems to love both forms equally and that makes her paintings are all very different. And that is how she has always worked.

MCE is at 20800 N. John Wayne Parkway, Suite 108. Visit www.MaricopaInnovates.com.