Artist from women's institute on ship in river (7)
I believe the answer is:
picasso
'artist' is the definition.
(Picasso is an example)
'women's institute on ship in river' is the wordplay.
'women's institute' becomes 'ica' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'ship' becomes 'ss'.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'river' becomes 'po' (Po is an example).
'ica'+'ss'='icass'
'icass' going within 'po' is 'PICASSO'.
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for picasso that I've seen before include "As cop is a Spanish painter" , "20th century painter" , "Spanish painter, d. 1973" , "famous artist" , "Pablo . . . . . . ., extraordinary 20th century artist" .)