From a family of stage actors, Yule studied film at the
University of Glasgow and later at the
University of Bristol. Her first film credit was as a director for
A Small Deposit, produced by Paul Homes. The film was nominated for a BAFTA award in 1994 in the Short Film Category. In 1996, she directed
Weathering the Storm for BBC 2, a documentary produced by May Miller about the lives of painters
Joan Eardley and
June Redfern and in 1998, she directed
A Love Exposed for BBC1, which highlighted the career and relationship of
Pierre Bonnard and his painter, muse, wife
Marthe de Méligny. In 2000 she directed four episodes —
The Stalls Of Barchester,
The Ash Tree,
Number 13, and
A Warning To The Curious — of the BBC Scotland produced series ''Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas''. Yule has worked with
Michael Palin, former member of the
comedy troupe Monty Python, directing a series of films,
Palin on Art about people in the art world whose stories have been untold.
Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi (2005), about Danish painter
Vilhelm Hammershøi;
Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson (2012), chronicling the life of Finnish storyteller and painter
Tove Jansson; ''Michael Palin in Wyeth's World
, which focuses on the life of American painter Andrew Wyeth; and Quest for Artemisia'' (2015) about Italian painter,
Artemisia Gentileschi. Yule's first feature film was produced in 2004 and was inspired by her work with Palin on Hammershøi. When they had completed that film, he went to the Himalayas to work on another project and she wrote the screenplay for
Blinded. Set in Denmark, and with one of the main characters named for the painter she tried to capture his painting imagery in the love story, which starred
Peter Mullan and
Jodhi May. and co-wrote
The Glass Half Full: Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism (2014) with David Manderson of the
University of the West of Scotland, where she was completing her PhD under his supervision. She completed her PhD in 2017 and became a
lecturer at
Falmouth University, when she is not working on films. ==References==