In 1953 Ayaz enrolled at the Teachers School in Pulur, Erzurum, and in 1956 joined the Painting Seminar at the Capa Teachers School. After completing the seminar he taught for a year in the village of his birth, and from 1960-63 studied in the Painting and Crafts Department of the Gazi Teacher Training Institute, working with his studio instructor Adnan Turani, who influenced his style. From 1963-66 Ayaz taught art at the Teachers School in Corum, and became a teaching assistant in Painting and Crafts at the Gazi Institute in 1966. After nearly two decades teaching at this institution he joined the faculty in the Hacettepe University School of Fine Arts, retiring as a professor in 1987. For a time he taught at the Bilkent University School of Fine Arts, but resigned in order to devote more time to painting. Since 1968 he has had nearly 40 one-man shows, seen his works displayed both at home and abroad, and received twelve awards among which are the TRT Art Award in 1971 and the State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition Achievement Awards in 1973, 1980 and 1983. More than three hundred of his works are in abroad collections and about two thousand are in national collections. Currently Ayaz works as an independent artist in Ankara. Ever since the 1960s Ayaz's painting has featured drawing, color and rhythm. Prior to 1970 he had a tachist style, but he then began to concentrate on the calligraphic aspect of line, and after 1975 went from an abstract to a concrete approach, introducing the figure to his repertory, although in rendering the figure he still employed a calligraphic aesthetic of the line. His works underplay the dramatic, with emphasis rather on the qualities of paint itself. Women feature prominently in Ayaz's work, being shown in various social settings and various milieus. In an approach characterized by movement, Ayaz's own figure has always appeared among fantastic elements.