Patricia Abela is an Australian artist based in the Blue Mountains. Patricia studied Visual Arts at the University of Newcastle and has a Bachelor of Arts Visual Arts and a Diploma of Visual Arts (winning the Jean Wright Memorial Scholarship). She also has a Diploma of Education through the University of Western Sydney.

Her art work is highly responsive to the sublime beauty of the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains National Park and its fragility. Patricia explores the concepts of the transient nature of life and the permanence of death using natural materials and found objects such as animal bones. This transition from life to death is represented in sculptural forms and drawings that embody strength and a spiritual power. The natural materials are a symbol of the impermanence of life.