Help needed identifying

Another one of these damn' signatures that seems to be deliberately created so no one can read it - they do get on my....  Anyway; never mind.  This is striking, and someone should recognize it; I don't, but I'll have a think and a look around tomorrow - time for my bed now. In the meantime: are Gibson's still there?  If so, you could try asking them.  And have you looked at the back of the painting?  There's often some helpful note there (he said, hoping against hope).  Do you have any idea what medium this is, oil or acrylic (it'll be one or the other; it's very difficult to tell from a screen - I could tell if I had it in front of me).  The name looks to start with an M - beyond that, it's anybody's guess.  The fact that it is a very stylized signature suggests that the artist might have been quite well known: amateurs tend to be a bit less gung-ho. As to value - well, that of course depends on the artist, and to a lesser extent (much less) on the condition.  Assuming the artist is not known at all, I would ascribe a value to this; I think you'd get a few hundred for it, because it is extremely eye-catching, it's a conversation piece: if I collected modern abstracts, I would be interested.  The value, again if it's an unknown artist, might be higher for an oil than for an acrylic - rather unfair, but so often the case.  It looks as though it IS an oil - it has great depth of colour, and the treatment of the paint suggests oil to me. That's all if it's not a known artist.  I think you have a picture there which is worth a bit - how much you won't know until you put it in an auction.  If it IS a known artist - then we'd need, if we could identify them, to see how their work fares when it comes up for auction or how it's priced in galleries.  So that's the first thing to find out: and we'll have some fun with the detective work - though I have to warn you that there have been an awful lot of artists, and while we've succeeded in identifying them sometimes, we've equally often failed. And the last thing for now - does anyone here recognize this artist?  

Try Cathy Mirouse - or perhaps Marouse - she has work with a similar palette; having trouble seeing signatures.  

Mirouse was the name; her approach is similar, so is the palette; even the signature looks as though it starts with 'M'.  This is all circumstantial evidence, and I've not found it easy to discover much about her - even her date of birth, which would help as a hint as to whether the age of this painting was within her timeline. It would be worth getting your painting professionally valued, I think.  Some of her work is priced at in the region of £1,000: though don't book the holiday yet, it may not be her at all.  

Do let us know if you find anything out - it all adds to the knowledge base.  £1,000 when bought is a pretty good guide to quality - not an infallible one, as fashion fluctuates, but even seeing it on screen I can see it has impact. 

Try this one: https://www.thomasgibsonfineart.com/ They've been going since 1969, apparently.  I'm just off to bed so I've only had a quick look, and don't know where they're based - you mentioned Gibson in your first post, so all I've done is look up dealers of that name.  They do specialize in modern/abstract art.