Early in her career, Pick was considered alongside other Ilam graduates Tony de Latour, Shane Cotton, Peter Robinson, Saskia Leek and Bill Hammond to be a representative of the 'Pencilcase Painters', who shared a propensity for evocative yet seemly whimsical doodling. She found her inspiration - in the years predating google - amidst the pages of pop-culture magazines, Pick was born in Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, in 1964. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury in 1987 and gained a Diploma of Teaching from Christchurch College of Education in 1991. In 1994 she received the Olivia Spencer-Bower Foundation Art Award, followed in 1995 by the Rita Angus Cottage Residency in Wellington. In 1999 she was a Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin. She has received grants from the Arts Council of New Zealand (1995) and its successor Creative New Zealand (1997). From 1997-1998 Pick lectured in painting at Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland. Pick has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Dowse Art Museum, White Noise 2015, City Gallery Wellington, Christchurch Art Gallery, and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Tell Me More 2009, 2010). She currently lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand.