Wild cat and otter inspiring artist to get clay (10)
I believe the answer is:
terracotta
'get clay' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'wild cat and otter inspiring artist' is the wordplay.
'wild' indicates an anagram.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'inspiring' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'artist' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'cat' after 'otter' is 'ottercat'.
'ottercat' with letters rearranged gives 'tercotta'.
'tercotta' placed around 'ra' is 'TERRACOTTA'.
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for terracotta that I've seen before include "casting" , "brownish-red colour" , "Ornamental building material" , "reddish colour" , "sculpture" .)