I think your story highlights two important things: 1) Therapists and clients simply do not share the same taste in artwork or other gifts; and 2)
The gifts that clients choose to give are often more meaningful to the client than to the therapist.

I actually think it makes more sense to make or buy gifts for ourselves...gifts that remind us of our therapist or of the therapeutic relationship or of something we learned in therapy...than it does to make or buy gifts for our T’s. We, as clients, know what personally holds meaning for us. What holds meaning for us is often not the same for T’s. Nor should it be. We are all on our own journeys.