  We propose that the 750 GeV resonance, presumably observed in the early LHC
Run 2 data, could be a heavy composite axion that results from condensation of
a hypothetical quark in a high-colour representation of conventional QCD. The
model, motivated by a recently proposed solution to the strong CP problem, is
very economical and is essentially defined by the properties of the additional
quark - its colour charge, hypercharge and mass. The axion mass and its
coupling to two photons (via axial anomaly) can be computed in terms of these
parameters. The axion is predominantly produced via photon fusion
($\gamma\gamma \to {\cal A}$) which is followed by $ Z $ vector boson fusion
and associated production at the LHC. We find that the total diphoton cross
section of the axion can be fitted with the observed excess. Combining the
requirement on the cross-section, such that it reproduces the diphoton excess
events, with the bounds on the total width ($\Gamma_{tot} \leqslant 45$ GeV),
we obtain the effective coupling in the range $1.6\times 10^{-4}$
GeV$^{-1}\gtrsim C_{{\cal A}} \gtrsim 6.5\times 10^{-5}$ GeV$^{-1}$. Within
this window of allowed couplings the model favours a narrow width resonance and
$ y_{Q}^2 \sim \mathcal{O}(10)$. In addition, we observe that the associated
production $q\bar{q} \to {\cal A}\gamma\to \gamma\gamma\gamma$ can potentially
produce a sizeable number of three photon events at future LHC and $ e^{+}
e^{-} $ colliders. However, the rare decay $Z\to\mathcal{A}^*\gamma \to
\gamma\gamma\gamma$ is found to be too small to be probed at the LHC.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology