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 really understand how this works, but
'secretary' could be 'pa' (abbreviation for personal assistant) and 'pa' is found within the answer.
'bury' could be 'inter' (to inter is to put into the ground) and 'inter' is found in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
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" .)