Springer varieties appear in
both geometric representation theory and knot theory. Motivated by knot theory and
categorification, Khovanov provides a topological construction of (m,m) Springer
varieties. Here we extend his construction to all two-row Springer varieties. Using the
combinatorial and diagrammatic properties of this construction we provide a
particularly useful homology basis and construct the Springer representation using
this basis. We also provide a skein-theoretic formulation of the representation in this
case.