Artist's secretary seen west of Bury (7)
I believe the answer is:
painter
'artist's' is the definition.
(type of artist)
'secretary seen west of bury' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'secretary' could be 'pa' (abbreviation for personal assistant) and 'pa' is located in the answer.
'bury' could be 'inter' (to inter is to put into the ground) and 'inter' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for painter that I've seen before include "Artist's rope for fastening a boat?" , "Eg, Rembrandt" , "Line attached to the bow of a boat when tying up" , "Bacon, perhaps" , "What Rolf Harris was allowed to do" .)